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Areas where fishing with SUCTION DREDGES is restricted |
Fishing pressures can be managed using spatial measures such as prohibiting or restricting certain types of fishing, target species, or vessel capacity. This dataset depicts restrictions on fishing with SUCTION DREDGES defined by EU, UK and Scottish legislation since 1986. Polygons were simplified for web use and are for illustrative purposes only. Guidance should be sought from Fishery Offices on interpreting legislation.
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Areas where fishing with vessels over a certain LENGTH is restricted |
Fishing pressures can be managed using spatial measures such as prohibiting or restricting certain types of fishing, target species, or vessel capacity. This dataset depicts restrictions on fishing with vessels over a certain LENGTH defined by EU, UK and Scottish legislation since 1986. Polygons were simplified for web use and are for illustrative purposes only. Guidance should be sought from Fishery Offices on interpreting legislation.
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Areas where fishing/harvesting of COCKLES is restricted |
Fishing pressures can be managed using spatial measures such as prohibiting or restricting certain types of fishing, target species, or vessel capacity. This dataset depicts restrictions on fishing/harvesting of COCKLES defined by EU, UK and Scottish legislation since 1986. Polygons were simplified for web use and are for illustrative purposes only. Guidance should be sought from Fishery Offices on interpreting legislation.
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Salmon and Sea Trout - Fishery Statistical Regions (hidden when zoomed in past 1:400,000) |
Salmon Fishery Statistical Region boundaries, used by Scottish Government Marine Scotland for reporting annual statistics obtained from salmon catch returns made by the owners/occupiers/agents of salmon fisheries. (Salmon Fishery Statistical Districts amalgamated into Regions.) Salmon Fishery Statistical Region boundaries were derived by Scottish Government Marine Scotland from Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) Catchment boundaries, Institute of Hydrology 1:50,000 DTM data and the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1868, with some input from District Salmon Fishery Boards.
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Areas where fishing of KING SCALLOPS is restricted |
Fishing pressures can be managed using spatial measures such as prohibiting or restricting certain types of fishing, target species, or vessel capacity. This dataset depicts restrictions of KING SCALLOPS defined by EU, UK and Scottish legislation since 1986. Polygons were simplified for web use and are for illustrative purposes only. Guidance should be sought from Fishery Offices on interpreting legislation.
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Leisure and Recreation - Surfing locations - January 2013 |
This dataset shows locations suitable for surfing in Scotland as listed by Magic Seaweed. (The locations are approximate - point location representing a non-point activity i.e. data show centre of beach of a given surfing location, not the whole beach).
Surfing beaches dataset created by Marine Scotland in 2010 with data scraped from the Magic Seaweed (https://magicseaweed.com/UK-Ireland-Surf-Forecast/1/)
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Areas where fishing of NORWAY POUT is restricted |
Fishing pressures can be managed using spatial measures such as prohibiting or restricting certain types of fishing, target species, or vessel capacity. This dataset depicts restrictions of NORWAY POUT defined by EU, UK and Scottish legislation since 1986. Polygons were simplified for web use and are for illustrative purposes only. Guidance should be sought from Fishery Offices on interpreting legislation.
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Leisure and Recreation - Sea angling days by region - October 2010 |
The number of annual sea angler days spent in the region. This data was drawn from the Scottish Government Recreational Sea Angling Report.
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Areas where fishing of HERRING is restricted |
Fishing pressures can be managed using spatial measures such as prohibiting or restricting certain types of fishing, target species, or vessel capacity. This dataset depicts restrictions on fishing of HERRING defined by EU, UK and Scottish legislation since 1986. Polygons were simplified for web use and are for illustrative purposes only. Guidance should be sought from Fishery Offices on interpreting legislation.
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Leisure and Recreation - Scottish Canals - April 2015 |
Line dataset representing the Scottish canal centre line split into 1km sections, provided by Scottish Canals.
This data was originally captured to help map the waterways for the production of our Statutory Planning Consultee buffer, using OS Landline and 1:10,000 mapping. This data was then edited and corrected by British Waterways to OS Landline and is now maintained by Scottish Canals. The data was divided into kilometre lengths each with a unique reference ID.
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