Aquaculture - Guidance on the Location of Marine Fish Farms

Published by:: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Last updated:: 19 June 2024
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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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Download aquaculture_data_dictionary , Format: N/A, Dataset: Aquaculture - Guidance on the Location of Marine Fish Farms	N/A	19 June 2024	Not available
Download aquaculture_locational_guidelines , Format: N/A, Dataset: Aquaculture - Guidance on the Location of Marine Fish Farms	N/A	19 June 2024	Not available
Download aquaculture_locational_guidelines , Format: N/A, Dataset: Aquaculture - Guidance on the Location of Marine Fish Farms	N/A	19 June 2024	Not available
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Download Marine Scotland information on locational guidance of fish farms , Format: N/A, Dataset: Aquaculture - Guidance on the Location of Marine Fish Farms	N/A	19 June 2024	Not available

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Added to data.gov.uk: 2023-11-03
Access contraints: no limitations to public access
Harvest GUID: Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1259
Extent: Latitude: 61.46459° to °; Longitude: -7.75714° to -0.53202°
Spatial reference system: National Grid of Great Britain
Dataset reference date: 2023-11-03 (revision)
Frequency of update: quarterly
Responsible party: Scottish Government (pointOfContact, originator, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
Metadata language: eng
Source Metadata: XML; HTML

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