Identification

Title

Management Units for Cetaceans in UK Waters (January 2015)

Abstract

This dataset is a collection of shapefiles that set out the boundaries of final agreed Management Units (MUs) for the seven most common cetacean species in UK waters. The boundaries are supported by a paper published on JNCC's website: http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-6943 The Inter-Agency Marine Mammal Working Group (IAMMWG), comprising representatives of Natural England (NE), Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), Natural Resources Wales (NRW) and Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) met at SNH Edinburgh on 28th June 2012. Expert scientific advice was also sought from SMRU. The paper derives from discussions at that meeting and subsequent correspondence. Details of each MU are provided, including boundaries and estimated abundance figures. The MUs provide an indication of the spatial scales at which impacts of plans and projects alone, cumulatively and in-combination, need to be assessed for the key cetacean species in UK waters, with consistency across the UK. The MUs have been fully incorporated into the Population Consequences of Disturbance (PCoD) interim model for assessing the impacts of marine renewable energy developments on marine mammals, developed by the Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) on behalf of The Crown Estate, the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC), Marine Scotland and the SNCBs. The interim PCoD model was published in February 2014: see http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2014/02/8509. The MU boundaries detailed in the paper are final and will not change until they are formally reviewed, anticipated to occur in 2019, and every five years thereafter.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/a943ac79-fb43-4d56-96b7-d3b48188aea1-UK-MUs-Cetaceans-201501.zip

name: UK-MUs-Cetaceans-201501.zip

Unique resource identifier

code

a943ac79-fb43-4d56-96b7-d3b48188aea1

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

IAMMWG, (2015), Management Units for cetaceans in UK waters (January 2015), JNCC Report 547, ISSN 0963-8091 http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-6943

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Marine

UK Biodiversity

Cetacean

Mammals

Species Status

UK Species

Conservation status

Species Status Review

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-15.576

East bounding longitude

14.131

North bounding latitude

62.215

South bounding latitude

46.602

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2015-01-01

End position

2015-01-01

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2015

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Boundaries produced following an IAMMWG meeting in June 2012 and subsequent discussions. Details are set out in a paper: http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-6943.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Documents

version of format

Unknown

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Released under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Attribution statement: “Contains JNCC data © copyright and database right 2015. Boundaries defined through discussions of the Inter-Agency Marine Mammal Working Group (IAMMWG).”

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

publisher

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2018-07-21

Metadata language