Aquaculture - Guidance on the Location of Marine Fish Farms

• Published by: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
• Last updated: 21 September 2023
• Topic: Not added
• Licence: Other Licence ; View licence information

Summary

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"

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
aquaculture_data_dictionary	N/A	21 September 2023	Not available
aquaculture_locational_guidelines	N/A	21 September 2023	Not available
aquaculture_locational_guidelines	N/A	21 September 2023	Not available
aquaculture_locational_guidelines	N/A	21 September 2023	Not available
Marine Scotland information on locational guidance of fish farms	N/A	21 September 2023	Not available

Additional information

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2023-09-12
• Access contraints: no limitations to public access
• Harvest GUID: Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1259
• Extent: Latitude: 61.46459° to 54.53297°
• Extent: Longitude: -7.75714° to -0.53202°
• Spatial reference system: National Grid of Great Britain
• Dataset reference date: 2014-06-01 (publication)
• Frequency of update: quarterly
• Responsible party: Scottish Government (pointOfContact, originator, custodian)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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