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Welcome to marine.gov.scot

Marine.gov.scot provides information about the Scottish marine environment, including resources that are made available by the Scottish Government's Marine Directorate and partners.

You can search across all types of content.

This site is part of the Scottish Government's marine open data network. The network also includes maps.marine.gov.scot (NMPi), data.marine.gov.scot, and Scotland's Marine Assessment 2020. The network is 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's 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. 

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

Basemaps

Physical Characteristics

Clean and Safe

Healthy and Biologically Diverse

Productive

Climate Change

Monitoring

Administrative

Regions

National Marine Plan

Projects

Maps are either interactive web maps available through Marine Scotland Maps, 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 Marine Scotland Maps can be seen in the Marine Scotland Maps (NMPi) section.

Map Layers (NMPi)

External Interactive Maps or Portals

ESRI Layer Package

Google Earth KMZ/KML

Web Map Services (Third party)

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 Maps

Marine Scotland Data

Marine Scotland Assessment

Scotland's Environment

Scotland's Aquaculture

Scotland's Noise

Scotland's Soils

NBN Atlas Scotland

Air Quality in Scotland

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Recent Content

Title Last updated
Marine Licence Application - Pontoon - Land south of A861, Ardgour Estate, Ardgour, Fort William - 00011258 30 sec ago
West of Orkney Windfarm 2 min 50 sec ago
Marine Licence - Construction of Offshore Generating Station - West of Orkney Windfarm - West of Hoy, Orkney - 00010559 3 min 48 sec ago
Marine Licence - Construction of Offshore Transmission Infrastructure - West of Orkney Windfarm - West of Hoy, Orkney - 00010561 4 min 45 sec ago
Marine Licence – West of Orkney Windfarm – Offshore Transmission Infrastructure – West of Hoy, Orkney - 00010561 8 min 3 sec ago
Havbredey Offshore Wind Farm 9 min 27 sec ago
Marine Licence – West of Orkney Windfarm – Offshore Generating Station – West of Hoy, Orkney - 00010559 8 min 35 sec ago
Moray East Offshore Windfarm 10 min 17 sec ago
Vessel Management Plan and Navigation Safety Plan (VMP & NSP) - Moray East Offshore Wind Farm 12 min 2 sec ago
Invergordon Service Base Phase 5 Development 3 days 7 hours ago

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National Marine Plan Review 2024

NMPi - maps.marine.gov.scot - Layer updates - 5 April 2024

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