Nature Conservation Marine Protected Areas (MPA)

• Published by: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
• Last updated: 21 July 2023
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Summary

Nature Conservation Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) can be designated by Scottish Ministers under the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 and the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010. The boundaries of the designated Nature Conservation MPAs provided in this dataset represent the final recommendations within both the 12 nautical mile Territorial Sea limit (on the basis of advice provided by NatureScot - the Scottish Government's adviser on all aspects of nature and landscape across Scotland) and in the UK offshore waters adjacent to Scotland (on the basis of advice provided by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee- the statutory adviser to UK Government and devolved administrations on UK-wide and international nature conservation).

A suite of 30 Nature Conservation MPAs (MPAs) were designated by Scottish Ministers on the 24th July, 2014.

A further site West of Scotland MPA managed by JNCC was designated by ministers on 25th September 2020.

Four additional Nature Conservation MPAs were designated by Scottish Ministers on the 3rd December 2020.

Red Rocks and Longay (Urgent ncMPA) was designated by Scottish Ministers on the 10th March 2021

The following URLs provide links to the consultation process websites: https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/protected-areas-and-species/protected-areas/marine-protected-areas/scottish-marine-protected-area-advice, https://jncc.gov.uk/our-work/nature-conservation-mpas/ and https://www.gov.scot/policies/marine-environment/marine-protected-areas/.

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Data links

Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
NatureScot OpenData hub	N/A	21 July 2023	Not available
GeoJSON (EPSG:4326)	ZIP	21 July 2023	Not available
Geopackage (EPSG:27700)	ZIP	21 July 2023	Not available
GML (EPSG:4258)	ZIP	21 July 2023	Not available
ESRI File geodatabase (EPSG:27700)	ZIP	21 July 2023	Not available
ESRI Shapefile (EPSG:27700)	ZIP	21 July 2023	Not available
protectedareas:mpa	N/A	21 July 2023	Not available
mpa	N/A	21 July 2023	Not available

Additional information

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2023-07-20T13:26:46
• Access contraints: You must always use the following attribution statement: © Crown Copyright, 2015. All rights reserved. License No. EK001-20140401. Not to be used for Navigation.
• Harvest GUID: fe97021f-6650-4313-88f5-ef99f99a9046
• Extent: Latitude: 63.8871° to 55.00°
• Extent: Longitude: -16.65° to 1.8464°
• Dataset reference date: 2013-07-01 (publication)
• Dataset reference date: 2013-07-01 (creation)
• Dataset reference date: 2021-03-10 (revision)
• Frequency of update: asNeeded
• Responsible party: The Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) - Aberdeen Office (originator, custodian); NatureScot (originator, custodian)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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