Aquaculture - Guidance on the Location of Marine Fish Farms
Category 1, 2 and 3 areas are designated on the basis of Marine Scotland predictive models to estimate environmental sensitivity of sea lochs. The maps describe the Category 1, 2 and 3 areas for the Scottish Government Locational Guidelines, designated on the basis of Marine Scotland Science predictive modelling to estimate nutrient enhancement and benthic impact in sea lochs or similar water bodies supporting aquaculture. The sum of these indices was used for the categorisation of areas as indicated: Combined 'nutrient enhancement' and 'benthic impact' indices 7 - 10 (Category 1), 5 - 6 (Category 2), 0 - 4 (Category 3).
For a detailed explanation of how these categorisations were derived, refer to the Scottish Fisheries Research (now Marine Scotland Science) Report "Scottish Executive locational guidelines for fish farming: predicted levels of nutrient enhancement and benthic impact"
Default
- Date ()
- 2023-11-03
- Identifier
- Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1259
- Maintenance and update frequency
- quarterly
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
- Agricultural and aquaculture facilities
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Use constraints
- Open Government Licence
- Use constraints
- The following attribution statement must be used: Contains information from Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Distance
- 100 m
- Metadata language
- eng (en)
- Topic category
-
- Environment
- Farming
- Oceans
- Geographic identifier
-
SCT
- Date ()
- 2007-12-13
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / National Grid of Great Britain
- Distribution format
-
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ESRI Shapefile
(
1.0
)
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ESRI Shapefile
(
1.0
)
- OnLine resource
- Marine Scotland information on locational guidance of fish farms ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related )
- OnLine resource
-
aquaculture_locational_guidelines
(
OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map
)
aquaculture_locational_guidelines
- OnLine resource
-
aquaculture_locational_guidelines
(
OGC:WFS
)
aquaculture_locational_guidelines
- OnLine resource
-
aquaculture_locational_guidelines
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
Download data as zipped shapefile on British National Grid projection
- OnLine resource
-
aquaculture_data_dictionary
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
List of terms and abbreviations used in Marine Scotland Maps Aquaculture datasets
- Scope
- dataset
- Statement
- This dataset was produced by Scottish Government using predictive modelling to estimate nutrient enhancement and benthic impact in sea lochs or similar water bodies supporting aquaculture.
Metadata
- Metadata language
- eng (en)
- Resource Type
- dataset
- Date stamp
- 2023-11-03
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.2