Protected Sites - Proposed Deep Sea Marine Reserve - West of Scotland (Consultation version)

• Published by: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
• Last updated: 12 October 2020
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Summary

The West of Scotland MPA was designated on 9th October 2020. The final version is hosted by NatureScot on Natural Spaces: http://gateway.snh.gov.uk/natural-spaces/index.jsp

The Scottish Government is consulting on the creation of a Deep Sea Marine Reserve in the Rockall Trough off the West Coast of Scotland. If taken forward to designation, the site would be underpinned by the powers in the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009. This means in legal terms it would have the same status as the other existing Marine Protected Areas in offshore waters. The Rockall Trough, if designated would help meet our international commitments to protect the marine environment in the North-East Atlantic, as required under the OSPAR Convention.

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Data links

Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
Download final version at Natural Spaces	N/A	12 October 2020	Not available
Scottish Government - Marine Scotland - Download Web Feature Service (WFS)	N/A	12 October 2020	Not available
Scottish Government - Marine Scotland - INSPIRE View Service (WMS)	N/A	12 October 2020	Not available
Download as zipped shapefile on WGS84 datum	N/A	12 October 2020	Not available
protected_sites_deep_sea_marine_reserve	N/A	12 October 2020	Not available
protected_sites_deep_sea_marine_reserve	N/A	12 October 2020	Not available
1851	N/A	12 October 2020	Not available

Additional information

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2020-10-12
• Access contraints: no limitations to public access
• Harvest GUID: Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_12215
• Extent: Latitude: 60.17355° to 55.88233°
• Extent: Longitude: -14.89295° to -6.245775°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
• Dataset reference date: 2019-06-14 (publication)
• Frequency of update: unknown
• Responsible party: Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) (pointOfContact, custodian, distributor); Marine Scotland (originator); Joint Nature Convervation Committee (JNCC) (originator)
• 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 the Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.