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Welcome to Marine Scotland Information

Marine Scotland Information (MSI) is a web portal that provides access to descriptions and information about the Scottish marine environment while providing links to datasets and map resources that are made available by Marine Scotland and Partners.

MSI is part of the Marine Scotland Open Network which also includes MS Maps NMPi (maps.marine.gov.scot), MS Data (data.marine.gov.scot) and MS Assessment (marine.gov.scot/sma/) the new home for Scotland’s Marine Assessments, including Scotland’s Marine Assessment 2020. The MSODN is the marine part of the Scotland’s environment platform.  

Content is grouped into various types, and you can use the next tabs to explore the content:

  • Information: Text and background, organised into themes that are aligned with the Scottish Government vision for managing Scotland's Seas.
  • Maps: Spatial data presented as interactive or downloadable map sources. 
  • Data:  Datasets, statistics, downloadable documents, and links to other websites.
  • Licensing: Access to documents associated with applications for Marine Licences. 

This web portal brings together datasets and maps from across the MSODN as well as links to other sources to provide context and information. 

You can of course search across all types of content.

 

Information on this site is organised by themes. You can select these themes to explore more information on available maps, data and topics.

Administrative

Assessments

Clean and Safe

Climate Change

Healthy and Biologically Diverse

Monitoring

National Marine Plan

Physical Characteristics

Productive

Projects

Regions

Maps are either interactive web maps available through National Marine Plan interactive (NMPi), or downloadable resources for further analysis in GIS tools. We have organised maps by the type of resource. A list of all maps available on NMPi can be seen in the NMPi section.

Embedded Web Maps

ESRI Layer Package

ESRI Map Package

Google Earth KMZ/KML

Map Services

NMPi

PDF Maps

Raster

Shapefile

Data sources are either downloadable files or links to more information on other websites. We include all datasets published on marinedata.scotland.gov.uk as well as numerous other links to partners, documents, and tables.

Code

Data Portals

Datasets

Documents

Galleries or Images

Reports

Scotland's Marine Atlas

Video

Web link

Marine Scotland Data

Marine Scotland Maps

Scotland's Environment

Scotland's Aquaculture

Scotland's Noise

Scotland's Soils

NBN Atlas Scotland

Air Quality in Scotland

Marine Scotland Assessment

COVID-19 UPDATE

Please note in relation to Covid - 19 update: Marine Scotland - Licensing Operations Team is working from home where possible. Our phone lines are therefore not currently being manned. Please communicate with LOT via email. Email addresses are MS.MarineRenewables@gov.scot for marine renewables correspondence or MS.MarineLicensing@gov.scot for all licensing queries.

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Welcome to Marine Scotland Information

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