Area management - crab and lobster fishery assessment areas in Scotland

• Published by: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
• Last updated: 21 September 2023
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Summary

For assessment purposes, the Scottish creel fishing grounds are divided into 12 assessment areas. Some Scottish assessment areas extend outside Scottish Territorial Waters. On the east of Scotland the South East assessment area extends beyond the Scottish border, while on the west coast, the Clyde assessment area stops short of the Irish border. There is some fishing on grounds outside the assessment areas. Currently these areas support only small fisheries and landings data are monitored for any change in importance

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
Download as zipped shapefile on WGS84 datum	N/A	21 September 2023	Not available
area_management_crab_lobster_assessment_areas	N/A	21 September 2023	Not available
area_management_crab_lobster_assessment_areas	N/A	21 September 2023	Not available
View layer on Marine Scotland Maps	N/A	21 September 2023	Not available

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2023-09-12
• Access contraints: no limitations to public access
• Harvest GUID: Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_12136
• Extent: Latitude: 60.96097° to 54.5331°
• Extent: Longitude: -8.837017° to -0.5226393°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
• Dataset reference date: 2018-11-28 (publication)
• Frequency of update: Not Planned
• Responsible party: Scottish Government (pointOfContact, custodian, distributor, originator)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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