Area management - areas where commercial fishing is prohibited or restricted (marine fisheries closed areas) - includes measures which contribute to the Marine Protected Area (MPA) network

Name: Area management - areas where commercial fishing is prohibited or restricted (marine fisheries closed areas) - includes measures which contribute to the Marine Protected Area (MPA) network
Creator: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot

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

Fishing pressures can be managed using spatial measures such as prohibiting or restricting certain types of fishing, target species, or vessel capacity. This dataset depicts restrictions defined by EU, UK and Scottish legislation since 1986. Does not include boundaries for the voluntary system of Real Time Closures (RTCs) or the legislative juvenile RTCs. Polygons were simplified for web use and are for illustrative purposes only. Guidance should be sought from Fishery Offices on interpreting legislation.

In the 2012 "Report to the Scottish Parliament on Progress to Identify a Scottish Network of Marine Protected Areas" (http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0041/00410766.pdf), eight fisheries restriction areas were also considered to contribute to the MPA network as existing "other area based measures". Four of these areas overlap with Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) and have now been removed from the list.

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Download area_management_fishing_restrictions_JSON , Format: N/A, Dataset: Area management - areas where commercial fishing is prohibited or restricted (marine fisheries closed areas) - includes measures which contribute to the Marine Protected Area (MPA) network	N/A	21 September 2023	Not available
Download MPA_other_area_based_measures , Format: ZIP, Dataset: Area management - areas where commercial fishing is prohibited or restricted (marine fisheries closed areas) - includes measures which contribute to the Marine Protected Area (MPA) network	ZIP	21 September 2023	Not available
Download area_management_fishing_restrictions_download , Format: N/A, Dataset: Area management - areas where commercial fishing is prohibited or restricted (marine fisheries closed areas) - includes measures which contribute to the Marine Protected Area (MPA) network	N/A	21 September 2023	Not available
Download area_management_fishing_restrictions , Format: N/A, Dataset: Area management - areas where commercial fishing is prohibited or restricted (marine fisheries closed areas) - includes measures which contribute to the Marine Protected Area (MPA) network	N/A	21 September 2023	Not available
Download area_management_fishing_restrictions , Format: N/A, Dataset: Area management - areas where commercial fishing is prohibited or restricted (marine fisheries closed areas) - includes measures which contribute to the Marine Protected Area (MPA) network	N/A	21 September 2023	Not available
Download Marine Scotland Fishery Offices , Format: N/A, Dataset: Area management - areas where commercial fishing is prohibited or restricted (marine fisheries closed areas) - includes measures which contribute to the Marine Protected Area (MPA) network	N/A	21 September 2023	Not available
Download EUR-LEX - European Union law , Format: N/A, Dataset: Area management - areas where commercial fishing is prohibited or restricted (marine fisheries closed areas) - includes measures which contribute to the Marine Protected Area (MPA) network	N/A	21 September 2023	Not available
Download Legislation.gov.uk UK and Scottish Acts and Statutory Instruments , Format: N/A, Dataset: Area management - areas where commercial fishing is prohibited or restricted (marine fisheries closed areas) - includes measures which contribute to the Marine Protected Area (MPA) network	N/A	21 September 2023	Not available

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Added to data.gov.uk: 2023-09-12
Access contraints: no limitations to public access
Harvest GUID: Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1306
Extent: Latitude: 61.792686088365436° to 53.62598014745915°; Longitude: -20.611730492164146° to 6.560225053870671°
Spatial reference system: WGS84
Dataset reference date: 2022-12-21 (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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The following attribution statement must be used: Contains information from Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
This dataset is for illustrative purposes only. Guidance should be sought from local fishery offices on interpreting legislation.

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