Identification

Title

Area management - areas where commercial fishing is prohibited or restricted (marine fisheries closed areas) - includes measures which contribute to the Marine Protected Area (MPA) network

Abstract

Fishing pressures can be managed using spatial measures such as prohibiting or restricting certain types of fishing, target species, or vessel capacity. This dataset depicts restrictions defined by EU, UK and Scottish legislation since 1986. Does not include boundaries for the voluntary system of Real Time Closures (RTCs) or the legislative juvenile RTCs. Polygons were simplified for web use and are for illustrative purposes only. Guidance should be sought from Fishery Offices on interpreting legislation. In the 2012 "Report to the Scottish Parliament on Progress to Identify a Scottish Network of Marine Protected Areas" (http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0041/00410766.pdf), eight fisheries restriction areas were also considered to contribute to the MPA network as existing "other area based measures". Four of these areas overlap with Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) and have now been removed from the list.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related

name: Legislation.gov.uk UK and Scottish Acts and Statutory Instruments

description: Portal of UK and Scottish Acts and Statutory Instruments

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html?locale=en

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related

name: EUR-LEX - European Union law

description: Law database of EU

https://www.gov.scot/Topics/marine/Compliance/resources/fisheriesoffices

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related

name: Marine Scotland Fishery Offices

description: Contact details of Marine Scotland fishery offices

https://msmap1.atkinsgeospatial.com/geoserver/nmpwfs/ows?token=d46ffd2a-e192-4e51-8a6a-b3292c20f1ee&service=wms&request=getCapabilities

protocol: OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map

name: area_management_fishing_restrictions

description: area_management_fishing_restrictions

https://msmap1.atkinsgeospatial.com/geoserver/nmpwfs/ows?token=d46ffd2a-e192-4e51-8a6a-b3292c20f1ee&service=wfs&version=1.1.0&request=GetCapabilities

protocol: OGC:WFS

name: area_management_fishing_restrictions

description: area_management_fishing_restrictions

https://msmap1.atkinsgeospatial.com/geoserver/nmpwfs/ows?token=d46ffd2a-e192-4e51-8a6a-b3292c20f1ee&service=wfs&request=getFeature&typeName=nmpwfs:area_management_fishing_restrictions&outputFormat=shape-zip&srsName=EPSG:4326

protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

name: area_management_fishing_restrictions_download

description: Download ALL fishing restrictions as zipped shapefile on WGS84 datum

https://msmap1.atkinsgeospatial.com/geoserver/nmpwfs/ows?token=d46ffd2a-e192-4e51-8a6a-b3292c20f1ee&service=wfs&request=getFeature&typeName=nmpwfs:area_management_fishing_restrictions&outputFormat=shape-zip&srsName=EPSG:4326&Filter=<Filter><Or><PropertyIsEqualTo><PropertyName>area_id</PropertyName><Literal>CA165.02</Literal></PropertyIsEqualTo><PropertyIsEqualTo><PropertyName>area_id</PropertyName><Literal>CA014.01</Literal></PropertyIsEqualTo><PropertyIsEqualTo><PropertyName>area_id</PropertyName><Literal>CA001.01</Literal></PropertyIsEqualTo><PropertyIsEqualTo><PropertyName>area_id</PropertyName><Literal>CA114.01</Literal></PropertyIsEqualTo><PropertyIsEqualTo><PropertyName>area_id</PropertyName><Literal>CA115.01</Literal></PropertyIsEqualTo></Or></Filter>&format_option=filename:mpa_other_area_measures.zip

protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

name: MPA_other_area_based_measures

description: Download "other area based measures" contributing to MPA NETWORK as a zipped shapefile on WGS84 datum

https://msmap1.atkinsgeospatial.com/geoserver/nmpwfs/ows?token=d46ffd2a-e192-4e51-8a6a-b3292c20f1ee&service=wfs&request=getFeature&typeName=nmpwfs:area_management_fishing_restrictions&outputFormat=application/json&srsName=EPSG:4326

protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

name: area_management_fishing_restrictions_JSON

description: Download ALL fishing restrictions as JSON on WGS84 datum

Unique resource identifier

code

Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1306

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

authority code

EPSG

code identifying the spatial reference system

WGS84

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-20.611730492164146

East bounding longitude

6.560225053870671

North bounding latitude

61.792686088365436

South bounding latitude

53.62598014745915

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2010-01-01

code identifying the extent

There is no appropriate value

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2022-12-21

Frequency of update

quarterly

Quality and validity

Lineage

Digitised from EU, UK and Scottish legislation since 1986. This dataset does not include boundaries for the voluntary system of Real Time Closures (RTCs) or the legislative Juvenile RTCs. Where datum was missing from legislation, Ordnance Survey of Great Britain 1936 (OSGB36) was used for legislation prior to 2004 and World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) was used thereafter. OSGB1936 was transformed to WGS84 using EPSG:1314. Generally, coastlines of Scotland, England and Wales were derived from OS Meridian 2 open data (1:50,000), but larger areas and other coastlines were derived from NOAA 1:250k Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database. Bathymetry was derived from EMODnet, modified using UKHO open (INSPIRE) data. Geographic descriptions and coordinates in older legislation are imprecise and the dataset is for illustrative purposes only - guidance should be should from local fishery offices on interpreting legislation. The data was simplified to allow quicker drawer on the web.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

ESRI Shapefile

version of format

1.0

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

no limitations to public access

Constraint set

Use constraints

The following attribution statement must be used: Contains information from Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Scottish Government

full postal address

Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay

Edinburgh

EH6 6QQ

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 (0)300 244 4000

email address

marine.gis@gov.scot

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

Scottish Government

full postal address

Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay

Edinburgh

EH6 6QQ

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 (0)300 244 4000

email address

marine.gis@gov.scot

responsible party role

originator

Responsible party

contact position

GIS team

organisation name

Scottish Government

full postal address

Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay

Edinburgh

EH6 6QQ

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 (0)300 244 4000

email address

marine.gis@gov.scot

responsible party role

custodian

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Scottish Government

telephone number

+44 (0)300 244 4000

email address

marine.gis@gov.scot

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2023-09-12

Metadata language