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"
dataset
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
protocol: OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map
name: aquaculture_locational_guidelines
description: aquaculture_locational_guidelines
protocol: OGC:WFS
name: aquaculture_locational_guidelines
description: aquaculture_locational_guidelines
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
Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1259
eng
EPSG
National Grid of Great Britain
environment
farming
oceans
Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
Agricultural and aquaculture facilities
publication
2008-06-01
-7.75714
-0.53202
61.46459
54.53297
publication
2007-12-13
SCT
publication
2014-06-01
quarterly
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.
ESRI Shapefile
1.0
no limitations to public access
The following attribution statement must be used: Contains information from Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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