Area Management - Salmon Fishery Districts
Description
Salmon Fishery District boundaries, used by Scottish Government Marine Scotland for reporting annual salmon catch statistics (which are obtained from salmon catch returns made by the owners/occupiers/agents of salmon fisheries) and for annual salmon stock assessment under the Salmon Conservation (Scotland) Regulations.
District boundaries were interpreted from the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Acts 1862 - 1868, and are based on Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) river catchments and licensed Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) 1:50,000 data. Boundaries and attributes were updated in 2019 and no further boundary or attribute changes have been required.
Salmon Fishery Districts are available to view as a layer on the Marine Scotland Open Data Network – see Marine Scotland Information pages for Salmon and Sea Trout Fishing at https://marine.gov.scot/themes/salmon-sea-trout-fishing. Boundaries were re-projected from British National Grid (BNG) to WGS84 Web Mercator before upload to Marine Scotland MAPS NMPi.
As the layer was derived by the Scottish Government from a licensed dataset, it is not downloadable or routinely available. It can be shared on request if the user provides evidence that they hold a licence from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) for the 1:50,000 Digital Terrain Model (DTM).
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https://msmap1.atkinsgeospatial.com/geoserver/nmpwms/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities |
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https://msmap1.atkinsgeospatial.com/geoserver/nmpwms/ows?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities |
Tags
- administrative-units
- fisheries
- area-management-restriction-regulation-zones-and-r