1d086c7b48c27365ba18df4a825712e4 English dataset Andy Cameron Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) - Marine Conservation Branch, Peterborough Monkstone House City Road Peterborough PE1 1JY andy.cameron@jncc.gov.uk pointOfContact 2016-11-15 MEDIN Discovery metadata standard 2.3.4 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::32630 2011 Irish Sea Conservation Zones, Irish Sea, Reference Areas 2011-08-01 publication ISCZ00000003 The Marine and Coastal Access Act (2009) created a new type of Marine Protected Area (MPA), called a Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ). MCZs will protect nationally important marine wildlife, habitats, geology and geomorphology. The Marine Conservation Zone Project concerns the selection of MCZs in English inshore waters and offshore waters next to England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Sites will be selected to protect not just the rare and threatened, but the range of marine wildlife. Andrew Cameron Irish Sea Conservation Zones GIS Officer a.cameron@irishseaconservation.org.uk originator Andrew Cameron Irish Sea Conservation Zones GIS Officer a.cameron@irishseaconservation.org.uk custodian irregular Geographic Information System NDGO0001 Habitats and biotopes Species distribution GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-01-06 revision Zoobenthos generic abundance Habitat extent Habitat characterisation SeaDataNet P021 parameter discovery vocabulary 2009-11-16 revision Copyright otherRestrictions Data to be used internally only, for external use please contact the Regional Projects. Display on all maps using the reference Areas with the logo of English biota biota Charting Progress 2 Sea Areas 2009-06-18 creation Irish Sea International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas 1954-01-01 creation Irish Sea and St. George's Channel SeaDataNet vertical extent keywords 2010-01-01 revision water column -5.5881 -3.0617 52.5755 54.8014 2011-03-01 2011-08-31 This information was extracted from ESRIISO metadata (incorporating ISO and FGDC elements) using the EsriIsoToMedin xslt version 1.0;ISO Resource created in environment: Microsoft Windows Vista Version 6.0 (Build 6002) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.0.1770 Andrew Cameron Irish Sea Conservation Zones GIS Officer a.cameron@irishseaconservation.org.uk distributor dataset The Marine and Coastal Access Act (2009) created a new type of Marine Protected Area (MPA), called a Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ). MCZs will protect nationally important marine wildlife, habitats, geology and geomorphology. The Marine Conservation Zone Project concerns the selection of MCZs in English inshore waters and offshore waters next to England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Sites will be selected to protect not just the rare and threatened, but the range of marine wildlife.