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Welcome to Marine Scotland Information

Marine Scotland Information (MSI) provides information about the Scottish marine environment, including resources that are made available by the Marine Scotland directorate and partners.

You can search across all types of content.

MSI is part of the Marine Scotland Open Network (MSODN). The MSODN also includes Marine Scotland Maps, Marine Scotland Data, and Marine Scotland Assessment - the new home for Scotland’s Marine Assessments, including Scotland’s Marine Assessment 2020. The MSODN 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 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

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 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.

Embedded Web Maps

ESRI Layer Package

Google Earth KMZ/KML

Marine Scotland Maps

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
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of wild seaweed harvesting 1 day 6 hours ago
Protected places and Controlled sites ("war graves") designated under The Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 1 week 2 days ago
Historic munitions disposal sites 1 week 2 days ago
Deposits of marine chemicals or marine oil treatments 2 weeks 6 days ago
Salmon Parasite In Linnhe, Lorn, and Shuna (SPILLS) 1 month 4 days ago
Sectoral Marine Plan for Offshore Wind for Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas Decarbonisation (INTOG) 3 months 2 weeks ago
Local Coastal Partnerships 3 months 2 weeks ago
ICES Statistical Rectangles and Areas 3 months 2 weeks ago
Northern Ireland Zone 3 months 2 weeks ago
Coastal and Estuarine (Transitional) Waters (Water Framework Directive (WFD)) Classification 3 months 2 weeks ago

News and Blogs

  • Marine Scotland Blog
  • Scotland's Environment Blog
  • Marine Protected Area receives permanent protection for the critically endangered flapper skate
  • Bilateral agreement on 2023 fish quotas reached between EU and UK
  • Outcome of Coastal States consultation on mackerel, blue whiting and Atlanto-Scandian herring
  • Scottish Marine Energy Research Symposium 2023
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  • New path begins at restored watercourse
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