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Rockall and Helen's Reef - high resolution multibeam echosounder bathymetry	High resolution bathymetry data of Rockall and Helen's Reef collected 2011-2012 as part of the ROAME Offshore Fisheries and Conservation (OFFCON) project. Rockall, a tiny island just 19 metres high, sits on the very extremity of Scotland’s marine environment. Some 180 miles due west of St. Kilda, it is buffeted year round by the extreme winds and swell that the North Atlantic weather generates. As such, it is Scotland’s only truly offshore shallow water ecosystem. The islet of Rockall is actually the only part of vast plateau of submerged continent that remains above sea-level.
VMS - UK activity associated with Oil and Gas Pipelines (2007-2015) - Demersal Trawls	The layers provide information on the intensity of mobile fishing associated with Oil and Gas pipelines and cables. Each layer was created by calculating the total number of fishing tracks in 1 km by 1 km squares along the length of each pipeline for four gear categories (see Rouse et al 2017). Fishing tracks were recreated for UK vessels greater than 15 m in length between 2007-2015 operating mobile demersal gear (otter trawls, pair trawls, beam trawlers and dredges) using vessel position data extracted from the Vessel Monitoring System. The layers can be used to aid the pipeline decommissioning process, including assessing the potential impacts and risks of different decommissioning options to commercial fisheries and informing the frequency of post-decommissioning monitoring according to level of fisheries interaction. The layers can also inform risk modelling for operational pipelines. This layer depicts fishing intensity by Demersal trawls and uses the time-aware functionality to filter by year. The data must be attributed with the statement "© Crown Copyright, All rights reserved. (Scottish Government). Contains data © CDA Ltd".
VMS - UK activity associated with Oil and Gas Pipelines (2007-2015) - Dredges	The layers provide information on the intensity of mobile fishing associated with Oil and Gas pipelines and cables. Each layer was created by calculating the total number of fishing tracks in 1 km by 1 km squares along the length of each pipeline for four gear categories (see Rouse et al 2017). Fishing tracks were recreated for UK vessels greater than 15 m in length between 2007-2015 operating mobile demersal gear (otter trawls, pair trawls, beam trawlers and dredges) using vessel position data extracted from the Vessel Monitoring System. The layers can be used to aid the pipeline decommissioning process, including assessing the potential impacts and risks of different decommissioning options to commercial fisheries and informing the frequency of post-decommissioning monitoring according to level of fisheries interaction. The layers can also inform risk modelling for operational pipelines. This layer depicts fishing intensity by Dredges and uses the time-aware functionality to filter by year. The data must be attributed with the statement "© Crown Copyright, All rights reserved. (Scottish Government). Contains data © CDA Ltd".
VMS - UK activity associated with Oil and Gas Pipelines (2007-2015) - Nephrops Trawls	The layers provide information on the intensity of mobile fishing associated with Oil and Gas pipelines and cables. Each layer was created by calculating the total number of fishing tracks in 1 km by 1 km squares along the length of each pipeline for four gear categories (see Rouse et al 2017). Fishing tracks were recreated for UK vessels greater than 15 m in length between 2007-2015 operating mobile demersal gear (otter trawls, pair trawls, beam trawlers and dredges) using vessel position data extracted from the Vessel Monitoring System. The layers can be used to aid the pipeline decommissioning process, including assessing the potential impacts and risks of different decommissioning options to commercial fisheries and informing the frequency of post-decommissioning monitoring according to level of fisheries interaction. The layers can also inform risk modelling for operational pipelines. This layer depicts fishing intensity by Nephrops trawls and uses the time-aware functionality to filter by year. The data must be attributed with the statement "© Crown Copyright, All rights reserved. (Scottish Government). Contains data © CDA Ltd".
VMS - UK activity associated with Oil and Gas Pipelines (2007-2015) - All Gears	The layers provide information on the intensity of mobile fishing associated with Oil and Gas pipelines and cables. Each layer was created by calculating the total number of fishing tracks in 1 km by 1 km squares along the length of each pipeline for four gear categories (see Rouse et al 2017). Fishing tracks were recreated for UK vessels greater than 15 m in length between 2007-2015 operating mobile demersal gear (otter trawls, pair trawls, beam trawlers and dredges) using vessel position data extracted from the Vessel Monitoring System. The layers can be used to aid the pipeline decommissioning process, including assessing the potential impacts and risks of different decommissioning options to commercial fisheries and informing the frequency of post-decommissioning monitoring according to level of fisheries interaction. The layers can also inform risk modelling for operational pipelines. This layer depicts fishing intensity by all gears and uses the time-aware functionality to filter by year. The data must be attributed with the statement "© Crown Copyright, All rights reserved. (Scottish Government). Contains data © CDA Ltd".
Pink sea fingers	NatureScot and Joint Nature Conservation Committee have collated data from various sources forming the Geodatabase of Marine features adjacent to Scotland (GeMS). This collation of species and habitat records provides information on the known recorded distribution of Scottish Priority Marine Features (PMFs), and Annex I habitats in the marine environment and is used as the core evidence base to support the Scottish Marine Protected Area (MPA) network. This web map service is a redacted version of the latest GEMS, providing non-sensitive data on the species and habitats included in the collation.
Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) - all sites including terrestrial (SNH WMS) (OSCP)	Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) are those areas of land and water (to the seaward limits of local authority areas or MLWS) that Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) considers to best represent our natural heritage - its diversity of plants, animals and habitats, rocks and landforms, or a combinations of such natural features. This is a Web Mapping Service (WMS) that contains the locations of SSSI's in Scotland.
Nature Conservation Orders (SNH WMS)	Nature Conservation Orders (NCOs) are made to protect any natural feature of land that is within (1) a site of special scientific interest (SSSI), (2) a European site or (3) other land of special interest, and where it is either being actively damaged or there is evidence that it is under threat of damage. The Orders set out certain prohibited operations and the land to which they apply. This layer displays NCOs in Scotland. This dataset was created by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), further metadata is provided by SNH via the following link: https://spatialdata.gov.scot/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search
Ramsar sites - all sites including terrestrial (SNH WMS) (OSCP)	A Ramsar site is the land listed as a Wetland of International Importance under the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat (the Ramsar Convention) 1973. The Scottish Government has designated 51 RAMSAR sites in Scotland, covering 326,719 hectares. This layer displays the Ramsar sites across Scotland. Data directly available from: https://jncc.gov.uk/our-work/uk-protected-area-datasets-for-download/ https://sitelink.nature.scot/home
Aquaculture - Controlled Activities Regulations (CAR) Licences - April 2024	Dataset shows aquaculture-related CAR Licences for Scotland. The Water Environment (Controlled Activities) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 – more commonly known as the Controlled Activity Regulations (CAR) – and their further amendments apply regulatory controls over activities which may affect Scotland’s water environment. This legislation arose from the European Community (EC)’s Water Framework Directive (WFD) becoming law in Scotland as the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 (WEWS Act). The regulations cover rivers, lochs, transitional waters (estuaries), coastal waters groundwater, and groundwater dependant wetlands.

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