Identification

Title

Protected Sites - Designated haul-out sites for seals (Protection of seals orders)

Abstract

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.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://www.gov.scot/policies/marine-environment/seal-haul-out-sites/

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

name: Marine Scotland information page on seal haulouts

function: information

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

protocol: OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map

name: protected_sites_seal_haul_outs

description: protected_sites_seal_haul_outs

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: protected_sites_seal_haul_outs

description: protected_sites_seal_haul_outs

https://msmap1.atkinsgeospatial.com/geoserver/nmpwfs/ows?token=d46ffd2a-e192-4e51-8a6a-b3292c20f1ee&service=wfs&request=getFeature&typeName=nmpwfs:protected_sites_seal_haul_outs&outputFormat=shape-zip&srsName=EPSG:4326

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

description: Download Seal Haul-outs as zipped shapefile on WGS 1984 datum

Unique resource identifier

code

Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1278

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

authority code

EPSG

code identifying the spatial reference system

WGS84

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

biota

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Protected sites

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

revision

effective date

2022-12-05

Frequency of update

asNeeded

Quality and validity

Lineage

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. Data confirmed as of 05/12/2022.

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) & Sea Mammal Research Unit licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Scottish Government

full postal address

Marine Scotland, Victoria Quay

Edinburgh

EH6 6QQ

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 (0)1224 876 544

email address

marinescotland@gov.scot

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

Sea Mammal Research Unit

full postal address

Scottish Oceans Institute, University of St Andrews

St Andrews

KY16 8LB

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 (0)1334 463446

email address

smru@st-andrews.ac.uk

responsible party role

originator

Responsible party

organisation name

Scottish Government

full postal address

Marine Scotland, Victoria Quay

Edinburgh

EH6 6QQ

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 (0)300 244 4000

email address

marinescotland@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

marinescotland@gov.scot

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2022-12-05

Metadata language

eng