Restoring marine and coastal habitats in Wales: identifying spatial opportunities and benefits

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• Last updated: 10 July 2024
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Summary

In order to better understand opportunities to build resilience in the Welsh marine environment, a report was commissioned by Natural Resources Wales to identify potential spatial opportunities to restore valuable marine habitats. The report created spatial products (Arc Geo database) for: areas in the floodplain that might be suitable for the creation of mudflat and saltmarsh through managed realignment and areas where the right conditions might exist for native oyster habitat and horse mussel bed restoration. The horse mussel data was provided from JNCC. The report also addresses restoration potential for Sabellaria alveolata reefs although no spatial data was created for this habitat and seagrass habitat although this was provided as a map image from JNCC. These spatial Data layers should be considered as initial aides to identifying potential locations or areas but come with several limitations which have been discussed in the report. Any restoration projects should undergo further site validation and local engagement before proceeding with any specific site. The following GIS datasets were created for this: SaltmarshMudflatOpportunitiesOpportunitiesFloodplainsSMPpolicy NativeOysterOpportunities WaveHeightGridABPmerSeastates CurrentSpeedGridABPmerSeastates HistoricSaltmarshExtents Salveolatarecordshistoricandcurrent Oedulisrecordshistoricandcurrent Mmodiolusrecordshistoricandcurrent PotentialBeneficialUse_Sources

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2023-02-01
• Access contraints: Part of this dataset is sensitive and restricted as it contains data exempt from general release under EIR. Unrestricted parts of the dataset can be released under an Open Government Licence (OGL)
• Harvest GUID: 4f4c4942-4343-5764-6473-313234393233
• Extent: Latitude: 53.51306700° to 51.24082900°
• Extent: Longitude: -5.77774100° to -2.60886500°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::WGS84
• Dataset reference date: 2021-07-01 (publication)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: Natural Resources Wales (NRW) (custodian); ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (originator)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
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© CNC/NRW and JNCC????? (unsure on this) Data may only be re-used externally under provision and in line with the terms of a NRW licence following an assessment of the data. © CNC/NRW Data may be re-used under the terms of the Open Government Licence providing it is done so, acknowledging both the source and NRW's copyright. It is the recipient's responsibility to ensure the data is fit for the intended purpose.