Priority Marine Features (PMFs) - improving protection of features outside the MPA network - supporting data for consultation - July 2018
Marine Scotland commissioned SNH to identify locations within inshore waters (6NM limit) where there is a need to consider additional management for bottom contacting mobile fishing gears to ensure there is no significant impact on the national status of 11 PMFs*. A consultation was launched in July 2018 seeking views on the data and evidence sources; the proposed management approach; and reasonable alternatives.
The following data has been made available: point data for 10 PMF species and their management status (native oysters are excluded for sensitivity reasons); polygon extents of "areas for management consideration" and "knowledge gaps"; polygon extents of estimated fishing footprint of bottom trawl and scallop dredge for period 2009-2016; illustrative management areas for PMFs outside of the MPA network.
*The PMFs encompassed by the review are Blue mussel beds, Cold water coral reefs, Fan mussel aggregations, Flame shell beds, Horse mussel beds, Maerl beds, Maerl or coarse shell gravel with burrowing sea cucumbers, Native oysters, Northern sea fan and sponge communities, Seagrass beds, Serpulid aggregations
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Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) (2018) . Priority Marine Features (PMFs) - improving protection of features outside the MPA network - supporting data for consultation - July 2018. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_12110 |
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- Date ( Publication )
- 2018-07-05
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- Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_12110
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- Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
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- Environment
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- Habitats and biotopes
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- The following attribution statement must be used: Contains information from SNH, Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) , and ICES licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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- Point data for the PMFs within the 6NM limit were extracted from SNH's GeMS database, and combined with additional records of the 11 PMFs collated within the agreed project timescales. The collated records were assessed as managed (bottom trawl and dredge fishing prohibited), unmanaged (no management in place or exceptions for bottom trawl or dredge), or inaccessible (intertidal components of the PMF). For the purposes of the consultation this included possible future inshore fisheries management. Areas for management consideration and knowledge gaps are approximate areas mapped by SNH on best available knowledge. The fishing footprint is derived from ICES sr.2017.17 data, selecting c-squares within 6NM limit where the average fishing hours 2009-2016 per c-square were greater than 12hrs per year. Existing fishing prohibitions were removed and possible future prohibitions were marked separately.
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- Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_12110 XML
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- eng English
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- Date stamp
- 2018-07-05
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- ISO 19115:2003/19139
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- 1.0