- Marine Scotland MAPS NMPi (National Marine Plan interactive) is Marine Scotland’s on-line planning portal making spatial data available to marine stakeholders in an easily accessible form to assist with the implementation of marine planning.
- Marine Scotland works with Scottish Natural Heritage, Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Joint Nature Conservation Committee and Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland to manage the content of Maps NMPi.
- MS Maps NMPi is part of the Scotland’s Environment family and carries the ‘part of Scotland’s environment’ logo.
- MS Maps NMPi, together with Marine Scotland Information and Marine Scotland Data is part of the Marine Scotland Open Data Network. For use statistics of these platforms see graphs below.
It is understood that the increase in users in February 2020 relates to a forum based maths challenge about Scottish fishing.
* please note that due to technical reasons, statistics for MS Maps NMPi were not collected fully during April, May, June & July 2018.
Pages: The total number of individual web site pages that has been requested by all users during all sessions. Pages are independent of the aggregation level.
Users = The number of unique individuals (or devices) that have accessed the site in the given period (e.g. if data are summarised monthly, then it is the unique number of people in the given month. The same user may have visited the site in a separate month and will be counted again for this month. But if data were aggregated on an annual basis, this user would only count as one)
Sessions = The number of times the site was visited. Each session consists of the entire period spend browsing the site pages until a user leaves the site or close the web browser. Sessions are independent of the aggregation level.
A. New layers added since 1st July 2019 – use the link to open MS Maps NMPi with the layer turned on.
- Distribution of impulsive noise events, Total Pulse Block Days (PBD) for 2015-2017 (time-aware)
- Distribution of noise activity type per Block for 2015-2017 (time-aware)
- Salmon and Sea Trout - Net fisheries reporting catches in 2011 to 2018 (hidden when zoomed in past 1:800,000) (time aware)
- Proposed Deep Sea Marine Reserve contributing to the MPA Network
- Aerial Photography (2019) (GetMapping WMS)
- Coastal rubbish aerial photography locations (SCRAPbook project)
- Leisure and Recreation - RYA UK Coastal Atlas of Recreational Boating - September 2019 – 4 Layers for different boating areas
- Draft Sectoral Marine Plan for Offshore Wind Energy - Draft Plan Options - 2019
- Leisure Mooring Agreements - Crown Estate Scotland - December 2019
- Limits and Boundaries - Mask Layer - Scottish Zone
- North and East Coast Regional Inshore Fishery Group (rIFG) (Mask)
- West Coast Regional Inshore Fishery Group (rIFG) (Mask)
B. Layers updated since 1st July 2019 – use the link to open MS Maps NMPi with the layer turned on.
- Aquaculture - Active finfish sites (26.07.2019)
- Aquaculture - Active fishery sites (26.07.2019)
- Aquaculture - Active shellfish sites (26.07.2019)
- Aquaculture - Inactive and deregistered sites (26.07.2019)
- Active aquaculture sites (OSCP) (Zoom Restricted) (26.07.2019)
- WFD Classification - Overall Status (2017)
- Ports and Harbours - Statutory harbour limits
- Cruise Scotland - Number of ship calls per port - 2013-2018 (time-aware)
- Oil and Gas - Hydrocarbon Pipelines (OGA and OceanWise)
- Telecommunication Cables (KIS-ORCA) (hidden when zoomed in past 1:25,000) - December 2018
- Power Cables (KIS-ORCA) (hidden when zoomed in past 1:25,000) - July 2019
- Aquaculture - Active finfish sites (02.09.2019)
- Aquaculture - Active fishery sites (02.09.2019)
- Aquaculture - Active shellfish sites (02.09.2019)
- Aquaculture - Inactive and deregistered sites (02.09.2019)
- Active aquaculture sites (OSCP) (Zoom Restricted) (02.09.2019)
- Fishing – managed areas – 21 layers for different management measures
- Sites and vessels designated under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 ("war graves") - protected wrecks - September 2019
- Oil and Gas - Hydrocarbon Pipelines (OGA and OceanWise)
- Aquaculture - Active finfish sites (03.11.2019)
- Aquaculture - Active fishery sites (03.11.2019)
- Aquaculture - Active shellfish sites (03.11.2019)
- Aquaculture - Inactive and deregistered sites (03.11.2019)
- Active aquaculture sites (OSCP) (Zoom Restricted) (03.11.2019)
- Fishing Statistics (per ICES statistical rectangle) 2014-2018 – 9 Layers for different indicators
- Aquaculture - Controlled Activities Regulations (CAR) Licences - October 2019
- Aerial Photography - All Scotland (Most recent) (GetMapping WMS)
- Shipbuilding and repair yards
- Defence (Military) - Military exercise areas and danger areas (PEXAs)
- Leisure and Recreation - Aquariums (aquaria) and marine wildlife centres
- WFD Classification (2017) – 10 Layers for different indicators
- Marine strandings data 2013-2018 (cetaceans, seals, sharks, turtles) (time-aware)
- Marine management, education, research and development locations
- Aquaculture - Active finfish sites (07.12.2019)
- Aquaculture - Active fishery sites (07.12.2019)
- Aquaculture - Active shellfish sites (07.12.2019)
- Aquaculture - Inactive and deregistered sites (07.12.2019)
- Active aquaculture sites (OSCP) (Zoom Restricted) (07.12.2019)
- Ports, harbours, marinas, and slipways - November 2019
- Ports, harbours, marinas and boat access locations (OSCP) - November 2019
- Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland members
- Maritime casualties reported to MAIB - 2005-2018 (includes non-tidal waters and rivers) (hidden below 1:800,000)
- Ports and Harbours - Statutory harbour limits
- Defence (Military) - MoD establishments and estate
- Leisure and Recreation - Marinas - RYA UK Coastal Atlas of Recreational Boating - September 2019 – 5 layers
- Possible Marine Conservation Orders (MCOs) and fisheries management measures for consultation (MPAs and SACs) - November 2019
- Aquaculture - Guidance on the location of marine fish farms - November 2019
- Aquaculture - Active finfish sites (31.01.2020)
- Aquaculture - Active fishery sites (31.01.2020)
- Aquaculture - Active shellfish sites (31.01.2020)
- Aquaculture - Inactive and deregistered sites (31.01.2020)
- Active aquaculture sites (OSCP) (Zoom Restricted) (31.01.2020)
- Aquaculture - Lease agreements - Crown Estate Scotland - April 2019
- Tidal Lease Sites - Crown Estate Scotland - June 2019
- Wind Lease Sites - Crown Estate Scotland - June 2019
- Wave Lease Sites - Crown Estate Scotland - June 2019
- Lighthouses and major lights
- Telecommunication Cables (KIS-ORCA) (hidden when zoomed in past 1:25,000) - January 2020
- Power Cables (KIS-ORCA) (hidden when zoomed in past 1:25,000) - January 2020
- Aquaculture - Guidance on the location of marine fish farms - January 2020
- Broad Habitat - Broad-Scale Predictive Habitat Map (EUSeaMap2 - EUNIS) - July 2019
- Broad Habitat - Deep Sea Habitats (EUSeaMap2 - EUNIS) - July 2019
- Broad Habitat - Subtidal Sediment (EUSeaMap2 - EUNIS) - July 2019
- Broad Habitat - Subtidal Rock (EUSeaMap2 - EUNIS) - July 2019
- Ports and Harbours - Statutory harbour limits
- Designated haul-out sites for seals (Protection of Seals Orders) - May 2017 (OSCP)
- Aquaculture - Active finfish sites (01.03.2020)
- Aquaculture - Active fishery sites (01.03.2020)
- Aquaculture - Active shellfish sites (01.03.2020)
- Aquaculture - Inactive and deregistered sites (01.03.2020)
- Active aquaculture sites (OSCP) (Zoom Restricted) (01.03.2020)
- Aquaculture - Disease Management Areas - February 2020
C. Layers in preparation
The following layers are in preparation:
- Nutrients
- Scottish Shelf Model outputs
- Scottish scallop dredge survey
- Sewage/abstraction/discharges
- UK Marine Online Assessment Tool 2019
- ACOPS oil spill data
D. Identified gaps and areas where data are sparse
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Activity / data area |
Comment |
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Mapping of inshore fishery activity |
Number of studies underway |
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Local fishery restrictions |
Will be considered as regional data layers developed |
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Coastal Character layers |
Data will be added as /when available |
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Species / habitats of regional / local importance (if not PMFs) |
Data will be added as /when available |
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New / updates to PMF records as they are found |
Data will be added as /when available. Layers are now WMS feed from SNH. |
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Mobile species protected by other international legislation (e.g. EPS and basking sharks). |
Data will be added as /when available
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Local areas that are important to mobile species |
Data will be added as /when available |
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Invasive species mapping |
Data will be added as /when available |
E. Recent NMPi technical changes / enhancements
A new mobile of MS Maps NMPI was launched in September 2019. It is available at https://marinescotland.atkinsgeospatial.com/nmpi/mobile. If you access MS Maps NMPi from a mobile device it should launch automatically although this may depend on your mobile platform settings.
Marine Planning and Policy
March 2020