The following spreadsheet holds information on all offshore Marine Protected Areas in the UK (beyond 12 nautical miles from baseline). These include Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs), Nature Conservation Marine Protected Areas (NCMPAs) and Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) with marine components and Special Protection Areas (SPAs) with marine components. This also includes sites that cross the inshore/offshore waters (territorial seas) boundary. It was updated in May 2018 - for details of the update please see the Version Control sheet.
Data includes: Site code, Site name, Site status, Country, CP2 Region, Feature type (broad), Feature type (specific), Marine features protected, Common name and Population type.
A shapefile supports this dataset: Offshore MPAs.
