Protected Sites - Designated haul-out sites for seals (Protection of seals orders)
Seal haul-out sites are designated under section 117 of Marine (Scotland) Act 2010. Harassing a seal (intentionally or recklessly) at a haul-out site is an offence. “Haul-out site” means any place which the Scottish Ministers, after consulting the Natural Environment Research Council, by order designate as such for the purposes of this section.
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Citation proposal
Marine Scotland (Scottish Government). Protected Sites - Designated haul-out sites for seals (Protection of seals orders). https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1278 |
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- Date ( Creation )
- 2014-06-23
- Identifier
- Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1278
Point of contact
Scottish Government
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Marine Scotland
Marine Scotland Science, Marine Laboratory, 375 Victoria Road
Aberdeen
AB11 9DB
United Kingdom
Originator
Sea Mammal Research Unit
Scottish Oceans Institute, University of St Andrews
St Andrews
KY16 8LB
United Kingdom
Custodian
Scottish Government
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Marine Scotland
Marine Scotland Science, Marine Laboratory, 375 Victoria Road
Aberdeen
AB11 9DB
United Kingdom
- Maintenance and update frequency
- asNeeded As needed
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
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- Protected sites
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Use limitation
- The following attribution statement must be used: Contains information from Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) & Sea Mammal Research Unit licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0
- Distance
- 50 m
- Metadata language
- eng English
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Biota
- Oceans
- Geographic identifier
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SCT
- Date ( Publication )
- 2007-12-13
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- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / WGS84
- Distribution format
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- ESRI Shapefile (1.0 )
- OnLine resource
- Marine Scotland information page on seal haulouts
- OnLine resource
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protected_sites_seal_haul_outs
- OnLine resource
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protected_sites_seal_haul_outs
protected_sites_seal_haul_outs
- OnLine resource
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protected_sites_seal_haul_outs
Download Seal Haul-outs as zipped shapefile on WGS 1984 datum
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Statement
- The 194 seal haul-out sites and grey seal breeding colonies were selected using a methodology developed by the NERC Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St Andrews (description of methodology can be found at http://www.smru.st-and.ac.uk/documents/1741.pdf ). Site selection was based on patterns of haul-out site usage by seals over recent years as recorded by SMRU during their aerial surveys.
Metadata
- File identifier
- Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1278 XML
- Metadata language
- eng English
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2019-12-10
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0