Area Management - Salmon Fishery Districts

• Published by: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
• Last updated: 01 November 2023
• Topic: Not added
• Licence: Other Licence ; View licence information

Summary

Salmon Fishery District boundaries, used by Scottish Government Marine Scotland for reporting annual salmon catch statistics (which are obtained from salmon catch returns made by the owners/occupiers/agents of salmon fisheries) and for annual salmon stock assessment under the Salmon Conservation (Scotland) Regulations.

District boundaries were interpreted from the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Acts 1862 - 1868, and are based on Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) river catchments and licensed Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) 1:50,000 data. Boundaries and attributes were updated in 2019 and no further boundary or attribute changes have been required.

Salmon Fishery Districts are available to view as a layer on the Marine Scotland Open Data Network – see Marine Scotland Information pages for Salmon and Sea Trout Fishing at https://marine.gov.scot/themes/salmon-sea-trout-fishing. Boundaries were re-projected from British National Grid (BNG) to WGS84 Web Mercator before upload to Marine Scotland MAPS NMPi.

As the layer was derived by the Scottish Government from a licensed dataset, it is not downloadable or routinely available. It can be shared on request if the user provides evidence that they hold a licence from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) for the 1:50,000 Digital Terrain Model (DTM).

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
area_management_salmon_fishery_districts	N/A	01 November 2023	Not available
area_management_salmon_fishery_districts	N/A	01 November 2023	Not available

Additional information

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2023-10-31
• Access contraints: public access limited according to Article 13(1)(e) of the INSPIRE Directive
• Harvest GUID: Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_12460
• Extent: Latitude: 60.96097° to 54.5331°
• Extent: Longitude: -8.837017° to -0.5226393°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
• Dataset reference date: 2023-04-28 (publication)
• Frequency of update: unknown
• Responsible party: Scottish Government (pointOfContact, custodian, distributor, originator); Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) (originator); Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) (originator)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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Licence information

Derived from licensed data

Maps containing the salmon fishery statistical district boundaries require acknowledgement of SEPA and CEH: 'District boundaries derived from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) river catchment data'; '© Scottish Government. Based on digital spatial data licensed from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, © NERC (CEH)' (preceded if appropriate by 'Some features of this map are'); and 'Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year]'.