Identification

Title

Aquaculture - Guidance on the Location of Marine Fish Farms

Abstract

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"

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://www.gov.scot/Topics/marine/Fish-Shellfish/18716/guidance

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related

name: Marine Scotland information on locational guidance of fish farms

https://msmap1.atkinsgeospatial.com/geoserver/nmpwfs/ows?token=d46ffd2a-e192-4e51-8a6a-b3292c20f1ee&service=wms&request=getCapabilities

protocol: OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map

name: aquaculture_locational_guidelines

description: aquaculture_locational_guidelines

https://msmap1.atkinsgeospatial.com/geoserver/nmpwfs/ows?token=d46ffd2a-e192-4e51-8a6a-b3292c20f1ee&service=wfs&version=1.1.0&request=GetCapabilities

protocol: OGC:WFS

name: aquaculture_locational_guidelines

description: aquaculture_locational_guidelines

https://msmap1.atkinsgeospatial.com/geoserver/nmpwfs/ows?token=d46ffd2a-e192-4e51-8a6a-b3292c20f1ee&service=wfs&request=getFeature&typeName=nmpwfs:aquaculture_locational_guidelines&outputFormat=shape-zip&srsName=EPSG:27700

protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

name: aquaculture_locational_guidelines

description: Download data as zipped shapefile on British National Grid projection

https://marine.gov.scot/data/list-terms-and-abbreviations-used-ms-maps-nmpi-aquaculture-datasets

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: aquaculture_data_dictionary

description: List of terms and abbreviations used in Marine Scotland Maps Aquaculture datasets

Unique resource identifier

code

Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1259

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

authority code

EPSG

code identifying the spatial reference system

National Grid of Great Britain

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

farming

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

Agricultural and aquaculture facilities

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-7.75714

East bounding longitude

-0.53202

North bounding latitude

61.46459

South bounding latitude

54.53297

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

ISO3166-2

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2007-12-13

code identifying the extent

SCT

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2014-06-01

Frequency of update

quarterly

Quality and validity

Lineage

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.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

ESRI Shapefile

version of format

1.0

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

no limitations to public access

Constraint set

Use constraints

The following attribution statement must be used: Contains information from Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Scottish Government

full postal address

Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay

Edinburgh

EH6 6QQ

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 (0)300 244 4000

email address

marine.gis@gov.scot

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

Scottish Government

full postal address

Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay

Edinburgh

EH6 6QQ

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 (0)300 244 4000

email address

marine.gis@gov.scot

responsible party role

originator

Responsible party

organisation name

Scottish Government

full postal address

Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay

Edinburgh

EH6 6QQ

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 (0)300 244 4000

email address

marine.gis@gov.scot

responsible party role

custodian

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Scottish Government

telephone number

+44 (0)300 244 4000

email address

marine.gis@gov.scot

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2023-09-12

Metadata language

eng