Area Management - Seal Licensing - Seal Management Areas

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16 February 2024
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Summary

On 31 January 2011, Part 6 of the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010 came into force. Part 6 seeks to balance seal conservation with sustainable fisheries and aquaculture and its introduction means: It is an offence to kill or injure a seal except under licence or for welfare reasons, outlawing unregulated seal shooting that was permitted under previous legislation A number of seal conservation areas around Scotland will begin to be introduced, designed to protect vulnerable, declining common seal populations A new seal licensing system, providing a well regulated and monitored context for seal management in Scotland has been introduced. Seal Management Areas are: East Coast, Moray Firth, Orkney and North Coast, Shetland, South West Scotland, West Scotland, Western Isles.

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Added to data.gov.uk
2024-02-15
Access contraints
Not specified
Harvest GUID
Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1190
Extent
Latitude: 63.88707° to 54.43328°
Longitude: -14.89295° to 2.605066°
Spatial reference system
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Dataset reference date
2021-06-02 (publication)
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Not Planned
Responsible party
Scottish Government (pointOfContact, custodian); Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) (originator)
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dataset
Metadata language
eng
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