Aquaculture - Guidance on the Location of Marine Fish Farms

Category 1, 2 and 3 areas are designated on the basis of Marine Scotland predictive models to estimate environmental sensitivity of sea lochs. The maps describe the Category 1, 2 and 3 areas for the Scottish Government Locational Guidelines, designated on the basis of Marine Scotland Science predictive modelling to estimate nutrient enhancement and benthic impact in sea lochs or similar water bodies supporting aquaculture. The sum of these indices was used for the categorisation of areas as indicated: Combined 'nutrient enhancement' and 'benthic impact' indices 7 - 10 (Category 1), 5 - 6 (Category 2), 0 - 4 (Category 3).

For a detailed explanation of how these categorisations were derived, refer to the Scottish Fisheries Research (now Marine Scotland Science) Report "Scottish Executive locational guidelines for fish farming: predicted levels of nutrient enhancement and benthic impact"

 
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Marine Scotland (Scottish Government) (2014) . Aquaculture - Guidance on the Location of Marine Fish Farms. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1259

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Date ( Publication )
2014-06-01
Identifier
Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1259

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Maintenance and update frequency
quarterly Quarterly
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units , Agricultural and aquaculture facilities
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no limitations to public access
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The following attribution statement must be used: Contains information from Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Distance
100  m
Metadata language
eng English
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Farming
  • Oceans
Geographic identifier
SCT

 

Date ( Publication )
2007-12-13

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EPSG / National Grid of Great Britain
Distribution format
  • ESRI Shapefile (1.0 )

OnLine resource
Marine Scotland information on locational guidance of fish farms  
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aquaculture_locational_guidelines  

aquaculture_locational_guidelines

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aquaculture_locational_guidelines  

aquaculture_locational_guidelines

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aquaculture_locational_guidelines  

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dataset Dataset
Statement
This dataset was produced by Marine Scotland using predictive modelling to estimate nutrient enhancement and benthic impact in sea lochs or similar water bodies supporting aquaculture.

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Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1259   XML
Metadata language
eng English
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dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2018-06-22
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

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