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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.

Administrative

Basemaps

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 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.

ESRI Layer Package

External Interactive Maps or Portals

Google Earth KMZ/KML

Map Layers (NMPi)

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 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

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Welcome to Marine Scotland Information

Recent Content

Title Last updated
Communication of Knowledge Strength in Sea Lice Dispersal Modelling - Technical Working Group 5 days 3 hours ago
Names of fishing grounds and features in Scottish sea (label stack) 6 days 8 hours ago
Power Cables 6 days 8 hours ago
Aerial survey - latest available digital aerial photography 6 days 8 hours ago
Base and background layers 6 days 8 hours ago
Broad-Scale Predictive Habitat Map - EUSeaMap2 - EUNIS 3 months 1 week ago
Salmon Parasite In Linnhe, Lorn, and Shuna (SPILLS) 3 months 3 weeks ago
Salmon and sea trout fishing - Statistical boundaries 4 months 2 weeks ago
Fishing - Activity data and statistics 4 months 4 weeks ago
Fishing - managed areas 6 months 2 days ago

News and Blogs

  • Marine Scotland Blog
  • Scotland's Environment Blog
  • Bringing the ocean into climate conversations
  • Responsible wildlife watching around seals
  • Funding announced to support protection and restoration of wild salmon
  • Pink salmon: an invasive non-native species
  • How Scotland’s wild Atlantic salmon are faring
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