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- Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
- Last updated:
- 19 June 2024
On 31 January 2011, Part 6 of the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010 came into force. Part 6 seeks to balance seal conservation with sustainable fisheries and aquaculture and its introduction means: It is...
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- Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
- Last updated:
- 19 June 2024
In response to local declines in seal numbers, the Scottish Government introduced conservation orders under the Conservation of Seals Act 1970 to provide additional protection on a...
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- Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
- Last updated:
- 19 June 2024
Seal haul-out sites are designated under section 117 of Marine (Scotland) Act 2010. Harassing a seal (intentionally or recklessly) at a haul-out site is an offence. “Haul-out site” means any place...
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- Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
- Last updated:
- 10 July 2024
This dataset is a catalogue of seal images that were collected as part of the former Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) and Natural Resources Wales' (NRW) seal monitoring and evidence work. Images...
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- Natural Resources Wales
- Last updated:
- 14 October 2025
This dataset is a catalogue of seal images that were collected as part of the former Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) and Natural Resources Wales' (NRW) seal monitoring and evidence work. Images...
- Published by:
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 14 June 2018
The Sound of Harris is a topographically complex marine area situated between North Uist and Harris in the Outer Hebrides. Very little is known of the marine biota of the area but it is likely to...
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- Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
- Last updated:
- 09 February 2025
The Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) conducts an ongoing programme of aerial surveys along the English and Scottish coastlines during the harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) summer moult. These surveys...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 17 May 2018
This is shapefile shows the coastal physiographic feature sound or strait in the UK. Primarily the This map is an excerpt from UKSeaMap. The majority of the polygons are Scottish sounds with...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 01 July 2019
This map covers the area in the south of The Sound of Barra, at the northeastern corner of Barra (from Traigh Mhor to near Loch Obe). The Sound of Barra has been selected as a possible Special Area...
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- Natural England
- Last updated:
- 05 August 2025
This dataset is a broad scale biotope map of Plymouth Sound. This map was produced as a result of a broad scale mapping survey of Plymouth Sound carried out in July 1996. A data review was also...
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- British Geological Survey (BGS)
- Last updated:
- 14 January 2026
The data consists of an extended abstract submitted to 'The Fourth International Conference on Fault and Top Seals', Almeria, Spain, 20-24th September 2015. The abstract describes work carried-out...
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- British Geological Survey (BGS)
- Last updated:
- 14 January 2026
The data consists of a poster presented at 'The Fourth International Conference on Fault and Top Seals', Almeria, Spain, 20-24th September 2015. The poster describes work carried-out on behalf of...
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- Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
- Last updated:
- 10 September 2024
The impacts of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are assessed in fat tissue (blubber) using live explant samples from young grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) on the east coast of Scotland. The...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 01 July 2019
This map covers the area in the north of The Sound of Barra, at the south-eastern end of South Uist. The Sound of Barrahas been selected as a possible Special Area of Conservation (pSAC) on the...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 01 July 2019
This map covers the area in the north of The Sound of Barra, at the south-western end of South Uist.The Sound of Barra has been selected as a possible Special Area of Conservation (pSAC) on the...
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- Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
- Last updated:
- 19 June 2024
Grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) are present around the coast of Scotland in internationally import numbers. They breed on wave-exposed rocky coasts, sometimes on sand or shingle beaches at the...
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- Natural Resources Wales
- Last updated:
- 14 October 2025
The nationally consistent terrestrial Tranquillity & Place resource identifies the strategic and local resource in remote, rural, peri-urban and urban areas for use as an evidence base to...
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- Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
- Last updated:
- 20 July 2024
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly were explored for grey seal breeding locations during the 1973 breeding season. The primary aim of this study was to revisit these recorded breeding sites, locate...
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- Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
- Last updated:
- 02 June 2025
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly were explored for grey seal breeding locations during the 1973 breeding season. The primary aim of this study was to revisit these recorded breeding sites, locate...
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- Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
- Last updated:
- 20 July 2024
As part of a report to Natural England, the NERC Sea Mammal Research Unit conducted and investigated the Grey Seal population status of Berwickshire and North Northumberland Coast European Marine...