Porpoise Feeding Areas

• Published by: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
• Last updated: 27 June 2019
• Topic: Not added
• Licence: Other Licence ; View licence information

Summary

The distribution of porpoise feeding areas were mapped based on observations from local groups and the public (using sightings data from Shetland Biological Records Centre). These sensitive areas (to oil spills) are ranked as high density or moderate density. This map forms part of the oil spill sensitivity maps commissioned by SOTEAG.

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
Oil Spill Sensitivity Maps	N/A	27 June 2019	Not available

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2017-09-25
• Access contraints: SOTEAG have terms and conditions which must be agreed and signed by the data user.
• Harvest GUID: b9fb3949d22ec6cde9262c715951212e
• Extent: Latitude: 61.0462° to 59.2981°
• Extent: Longitude: -2.4008° to -0.3573°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
• Dataset reference date: 2016-05-13 (publication)
• Dataset reference date: 2017-09-25 (revision)
• Frequency of update: continual
• Responsible party: Marine Atlas Consultants Ltd (originator, custodian)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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