Area management - areas where commercial fishing is prohibited or restricted (marine fisheries closed areas) - includes measures which contribute to the Marine Protected Area (MPA) network

Fishing pressures can be managed using spatial measures such as prohibiting or restricting certain types of fishing, target species, or vessel capacity. This dataset depicts restrictions defined by EU, UK and Scottish legislation since 1986. Does not include boundaries for the voluntary system of Real Time Closures (RTCs) or the legislative juvenile RTCs. Polygons were simplified for web use and are for illustrative purposes only. Guidance should be sought from Fishery Offices on interpreting legislation.

In the 2012 "Report to the Scottish Parliament on Progress to Identify a Scottish Network of Marine Protected Areas" (http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0041/00410766.pdf), eight fisheries restriction areas were also considered to contribute to the MPA network as existing "other area based measures".

 
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Marine Scotland (Scottish Government). Area management - areas where commercial fishing is prohibited or restricted (marine fisheries closed areas) - includes measures which contribute to the Marine Protected Area (MPA) network. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1306

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Date ( Revision )
2017-03-07
Identifier
Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1306

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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
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) licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Use limitation
This dataset is for illustrative purposes only. Guidance should be sought from local fishery offices on interpreting legislation.
Distance
100  m
Metadata language
eng English
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Oceans
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Geographic identifier
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Date ( Revision )
2010-01-01

Reference system identifier
EPSG / WGS84
Distribution format
  • ESRI Shapefile (1.0 )

OnLine resource
Legislation.gov.uk UK and Scottish Acts and Statutory Instruments  

Portal of UK and Scottish Acts and Statutory Instruments

OnLine resource
EUR-LEX - European Union law  

Law database of EU

OnLine resource
Marine Scotland Fishery Offices  

Contact details of Marine Scotland fishery offices

OnLine resource
area_management_fishing_restrictions  

area_management_fishing_restrictions

OnLine resource
area_management_fishing_restrictions  

area_management_fishing_restrictions

OnLine resource
area_management_fishing_restrictions_download  

Download ALL fishing restrictions as zipped shapefile on WGS84 datum

OnLine resource
MPA_other_area_based_measures  

Download "other area based measures" contributing to MPA NETWORK as a zipped shapefile on WGS84 datum

OnLine resource
area_management_fishing_restrictions_JSON  

Download ALL fishing restrictions as JSON on WGS84 datum

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dataset Dataset
Statement
Digitised from EU, UK and Scottish legislation since 1986. This dataset does not include boundaries for the voluntary system of Real Time Closures (RTCs) or the legislative Juvenile RTCs. Where datum was missing from legislation, Ordnance Survey of Great Britain 1936 (OSGB36) was used for legislation prior to 2004 and World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) was used thereafter. OSGB1936 was transformed to WGS84 using EPSG:1314. Generally, coastlines of Scotland, England and Wales were derived from OS Meridian 2 open data (1:50,000), but larger areas and other coastlines were derived from NOAA 1:250k Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database. Bathymetry was derived from EMODnet, modified using UKHO open (INSPIRE) data. Geographic descriptions and coordinates in older legislation are imprecise and the dataset is for illustrative purposes only - guidance should be should from local fishery offices on interpreting legislation. The data was simplified to allow quicker drawer on the web.

Metadata

File identifier
Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1306   XML
Metadata language
eng English
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2018-12-22
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

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