047e4b79b70c8fe9c4d0b3fb3cf92465 English 58628a076974a3a6df36c8f951853044 dataset Shetland Marine Spatial Plan Marine Spatial Planning Manager North Atlantic Fisheries College Marine Centre marineplan@uhi.ac.uk pointOfContact 2021-04-07 MEDIN Discovery metadata standard 2.3.8 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 2007 Species records indicative of an important seabed habitiat (beds and reefs) around Shetland 2007-12-03 publication 2003-11-30 creation 2007-12-03 revision SSMEIShetland-16b http://www.nafc.ac.uk This map shows the locations of important (those protected under the Habitats Directive) indicative seabed habitats. This map differs from map 16a in that greater uncertainty exists about the precentage cover that would consitute a "bed" or "reef". Of relevance to Shetland are horse mussel, maerl and common eelgrass. The Scottish Sustainable Marine Environment Initiative (SSMEI) Shetland pilot trawled through 32 datasets for presence of these beds and reefs, and digitally converted these to this map. Shetland Marine Spatial Plan Marine Spatial Planning Manager North Atlantic Fisheries College Marine Centre marineplan@uhi.ac.uk originator Dan Lear Data Archive for Seabed Species and Habitats (DASSH) 01752 633102 01752 633291 Marine Biological Association of the UK, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill Plymouth PL1 2PB dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk custodian asNeeded Geographic Information System Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Habitats and biotopes GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-01-06 revision Habitats and biotopes INSPIRE THEMES 2011-02-16 creation Marine UNESCO 2003-01-01 creation Biodiversity GEMET 2011-07-06 creation Habitat extent Habitat characterisation SeaDataNet P021 parameter discovery vocabulary 2009-11-16 revision Data is freely avilable for research or commercial use providing that the originators are acknowledged in any publications produced. otherRestrictions Data is freely avilable for research or commercial use providing that the originators are acknowledged in any publications produced. English biota Charting Progress 2 Sea Areas 2009-06-18 creation Northern North Sea Charting Progress 2 Sea Areas 2009-06-18 creation Scottish Continental Shelf -2.5300 -0.3100 59.3000 61.0670 1973-11-30 2003-11-30 Marine Recorder, JNCC. AND Mair, J.M., Moore, C.G., Kingston, P.F. and Harries, D.B. (2000). A review of the status, ecology and conservation of horse mussel Modiolus modiolus beds in Scotland. Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report F99PA08. AND Moore, J.J. (2006). Survey of the rocky shores in the region of Shetland Marine Spatial Plan Marine Spatial Planning Manager North Atlantic Fisheries College Marine Centre marineplan@uhi.ac.uk distributor http://www.nafc.ac.uk/SSMEI.aspx NAFC Marine Centre dataset The Scottish Sustainable Marine Environment Initiative (SSMEI) Shetland pilot created this map based on orginal data from various surveys, some of which are held collectively by the JNCC and is called the "Marine Recorder" dataset, others have been collected on behalf of SNH. "Important" habitats were determined by a SSMEI Biodiversity Working Group and based upon legislation (those protected under the Habitats Directive). The SSMEI trawled through 32 datasets for the presence of these "impotant" biotopes and digitally converted these grid references to a map.