Area Management - Scottish Regional Inshore Fisheries Groups (RIFGs)

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• Last updated: 16 February 2024
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Summary

Regional Inshore Fisheries Groups (RIFGs) are bodies that aim to improve the management of Scotland's inshore fisheries (out to twelve nautical miles) and to give commercial inshore fishermen a strong voice in wider marine management developments.

Originally six pilot IFGs were established in 2009 (covering the Outer Hebrides, the Clyde, the south east of Scotland, the north west, small isles and Mull, and Moray Firth) and each developed an inshore fisheries management plan for its area. This was followed in 2013 by six Inshore Fisheries Groups (IFGs) covering all of the Scottish coast (except Shetland which has its own management arrangements).

The West Coast and North & East Coast RIFGs were established in April 2016 and replace the four IFGs that formerly covered the Scottish mainland coast. This layer shows the RIFG network, which includes the West Coast, North & East Coast and Outer Hebrides RIFGs, along with the Orkney Management Group and Shetland Shellfish Management Organisation. In 2020, the scope of RIFGs was extended to the 12NM limit as part of the Future Fisheries Management (FFM) policy.

A new structure for the RIFG network was established in January 2023 which subdivides the west coast into two sections as well as taking a new approach to the Northern Isles.

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
View on Marine Scotland Maps	N/A	16 February 2024	Not available
Download as zipped shapefile on WGS84 datum	N/A	16 February 2024	Not available
area_management_inshore_fisheries_groups	N/A	16 February 2024	Not available
area_management_inshore_fisheries_groups	N/A	16 February 2024	Not available

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2024-02-15
• Access contraints: no limitations to public access
• Harvest GUID: Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1197
• Extent: Latitude: 60.96097° to 54.5331°
• Extent: Longitude: -8.837017° to -0.5226393°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
• Dataset reference date: 2023-05-10 (publication)
• Frequency of update: unknown
• Responsible party: Scottish Government (pointOfContact, custodian, distributor, originator)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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