Shellfish Water Protected Areas PUBLIC

Shellfish Water Protected Areas came into force on 22/12/13 comprising 85 areas defined by The Water Environment (Shellfish Water Protected Areas - Designation) (Scotland) Order 2013 (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2013/324/pdfs/ssi_20130324_en.pdf). Loch Ryan was designated separately and came into force on 4/10/16 through The Water Environment (Shellfish Water Protected Areas: Designation) (Scotland) Order 2016 (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/251/pdfs/ssi_20160251_en.pdf). For more information and maps of the individual designations please see the Scottish Government web pages: http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Environment/Water/15561/ShellfishWaters.

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Added to data.gov.uk: 2025-07-31
Access contraints: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Available free of charge under the terms of the current Open Government Licence (OGL) (</SPAN><SPAN>https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/</SPAN><SPAN>). Acknowledgement of and source of the data is required by including the the copyright following attribution statement: © Scottish Environment Protection Agency. Contains OS data Copyright Crown copyright and database right (year). </SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Harvest GUID: 54bd178b-54d3-40f9-8231-e9cf0df68db6
Extent: Latitude: 60.7664° to °; Longitude: -8.0163° to -0.7985°
Spatial reference system: British National Grid
Dataset reference date: 2013-12-23 (creation)
Frequency of update: asNeeded
Responsible party: Scottish Environment Protection Agency (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
Metadata language: eng
Source Metadata: XML; HTML