Updating Fisheries Sensitivity Maps in British Waters

• Published by: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
• Last updated: 23 July 2020
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• Licence: Open Government Licence ; View licence information

Summary

The requirement to display sensitive areas relating to the life history of commercially important fish species in British waters is well recognized. Sensitive areas have previously been described as spawning and nursery grounds. Here we consider only areas where there is evidence of aggregations of 0 group fish and/or larvae of key commercial species. 0 group fish are defined as fish in the first year of their lives. These fish sensitivity maps were originally generated to provide a spatial and temporal description of where physical damage could potentially occur to fish species at sensitive stages in essential habitats of their life cycle. Sources of damage in this context referred to seismic surveying conducted by the offshore Oil and Gas industry during their site investigations. In addition to the acoustic energy that the seismic survey activities generate, we should now add other percussive impact noises from pile driving seabed foundation pins into the seabed, such as those required for offshore renewable energy sites. The spatial location of these fish life history events and their potential interaction with offshore industries can heavily influence the planning, costs and delivery of these offshore developments. It is imperative that these maps reflect the current extent of these areas.

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• 1998 - 1998 Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (Cefas) Fisheries spawning and nursery areas 'Fishery Sensitivity Maps in British Waters' GIS Layers for 1998
• Seabird Mapping & Sensitivity Tool (SeaMaST)
• 2001 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA2 Technical report - North Sea Geology, covering subsurface geology, sea-bed sediments, sediment mobility and seismicity.
• 2004 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA5 Technical Report - Shellfish and fisheries (Northern North Sea)

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
National Marine Plan Interactive (NMPi) WMS Get Capabilities	N/A	23 July 2020	Not available
DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.7489/1555-1	N/A	23 July 2020	Not available

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2020-07-08
• Access contraints: no limitations to public access
• Harvest GUID: Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_1555
• Extent: Latitude: 61.5° to 50°
• Extent: Longitude: -10° to 1°
• Spatial reference system: WGS84
• Dataset reference date: 2014-12-19 (publication)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: Scottish Government (pointOfContact, originator, custodian)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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