Marine Scotland Offices and Locations |
Marine Scotland is a Directorate of the Scottish Government and is responsible for the integrated management of Scotland's seas. This dataset shows the location of Marine Scotland laboratories, field stations, fishery offices, and policy teams throughout Scotland. Also includes home ports for marine protection vessels (MPVs) and home base for Marine Scotland aircraft. Building polygons were also added to Open Street Map to be visible on the National Marine Plan Interactive (NMPi) basemap.
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SEPA Offices |
Scottish Environmental Protection Agency - location of SEPA offices throughout Scotland.
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Local Coastal Partnerships (LCP) |
The Scottish Coastal Forum was formed in 1996 to encourage debate at national level on coastal issues. Its members advise Marine Scotland, from an operational perspective, on the development of policy relating to marine planning and licensing within a sustainable marine environment. The Forum also provides a network for circulating information and best practice in coastal management amongst its own varied membership and the wider Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) community.
Scotland has 7 Local Coastal Partnerships -
• Coast Hebrides
• East Grampian Partnership
• Firth of Clyde Forum
• Forth Estuary Forum
• Moray Firth Partnership
• Solway Firth Partnership
• Tay Estuary Forum
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SNH Offices |
Location of Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) offices throughout Scotland.
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WFD Area Advisory Groups (SEPA WMS) |
Eleven multi-stakeholder area advisory groups were created across Scotland to contribute to the development and delivery of the first river basin plans.This is a Web Map Service (WMS) layer which shows Water Framework Directive (WFD) Sub Basin Districts for Scotland.
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Regional Inshore Fishery Groups Areas (rIFGs) - April 2016 (hidden when zoomed in past 1:50,000) |
Regional Inshore Fisheries Groups (RIFGs) are bodies that aim to improve the management of Scotland's inshore fisheries (out to six nautical miles) and to give commercial inshore fishermen a strong voice in wider marine management developments. Originally six pilot IFGs were established in 2009 (covering the Outer Hebrides, the Clyde, the south east of Scotland, the north west, small isles and Mull, and Moray Firth) and each developed an inshore fisheries management plan for its area. This was followed in 2013 by six Inshore Fisheries Groups (IFGs) covering all of the Scottish coast (except Shetland which has its own management arrangements). The West Coast and North & East Coast RIFGs were established in April 2016 and replace the four IFGs that formerly covered the Scottish mainland coast. This layer shows the RIFG network, which includes the West Coast, North & East Coast and Outer Hebrides RIFGs, along with the Orkney Management Group and Shetland Shellfish Management Organisation.
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Marine management, education, research and development locations |
The layer shows organisations involved in the management of Scotland's seas both government and research council based (e.g. Marine Scotland, SEPA, SNH, JNCC, BGS); as well as the academic based research and nautical training locations. The position of sites was estimated from individual websites, Ordnance Survey maps and aerial imagery, and is indicative only. (This is an update of the map on page 187 of the Marine Atlas.)
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Prospective sand and gravel resources (hidden below 1:500,000) |
On behalf of the Crown Estate, the British Geological Survey mapped the marine aggregate and mineral resources around Scotland. The data has been inferred from geological data, review of relevant literature and interpretation of boreholes.
The marine aggregate resources include:
- Sand and gravel (aggregate) resources,
- Prospective areas for Sand and gravel (aggregate) resources,
- Fill areas where the mud content of the sand is <10% and so is not considered a Sand and gravel (aggregate) resource; but is of value because it is suitable for fill in, for example, land reclamation use.
The mineral resources include:
- Coal resources
- Evaporite resources
- Metallic mineral resources
Each of the 6 resources can be viewed as an NMPI layer.
This layer displays the prospective sand and gravel resources around Scotland as mapped, on behalf of the Crown Estate, by the British Geological Survey.
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Metallic mineral resources (hidden below 1:500,000) |
On behalf of the Crown Estate, the British Geological Survey mapped the marine aggregate and mineral resources around Scotland. The data has been inferred from geological data, review of relevant literature and interpretation of boreholes.
The marine aggregate resources include:
- Sand and gravel (aggregate) resources,
- Prospective areas for Sand and gravel (aggregate) resources,
- Fill areas where the mud content of the sand is <10% and so is not considered a Sand and gravel (aggregate) resource; but is of value because it is suitable for fill in, for example, land reclamation use.
The mineral resources include:
- Coal resources
- Evaporite resources
- Metallic mineral resources
Each of the 6 resources can be viewed as an NMPI layer.
This layer displays the metallic mineral resources around Scotland as mapped, on behalf of the Crown Estate, by the British Geological Survey.
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Historic Aggregate Areas (Forth and Tay) |
Historic Aggregate Areas layer shows two areas (in the Firth of Forth and Firth of Tay) that have been dredged for aggregate previously but are not currently licensed.
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