This layer contains locations of shellfish growing waters designated in line with the Shellfish Waters Directive (2006/113/EC) by Scottish Government under The Water Environment (Shellfish Water Protected Areas: Designation) (Scotland) Order 2013. Waters are used for commercial shellfish cultivation. Water quality in designated areas is regularly monitored by SEPA.
The 15 sea areas are based on areas previously adopted for certain environmental monitoring programmes. The data from these 15 areas can be presented regionally and also reasonably aggregated to form a national picture and to develop information for the two main areas required for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive initial assessment: the Greater North Sea (Area II) and the Celtic Seas (Area III) which are existing sea areas used by OSPAR (the Oslo Paris Convention for the Protection of the North East Atlantic).
Charting Progress (CP) regions are the eight sea areas on which the assessment of the state of the seas was first reported in 'Charting Progress' in 2005, with CP2 following in 2010. The reports are published by the UK Marine Monitoring and Assessment community which has over 40 member organisations and reports on the vision of clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse oceans and seas.
Names of sea features and fishing grounds around Scotland, designed for use with Ordnance Survey's ZoomStack and Marine Scotland Maps.
