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Pilot Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters Marine Spatial Plan. Regional Locational Guidance.

Published: 21 March 2016
Topic: Marine and fisheries
ISBN: 9781786520722

PFOW MSP Regional Locational Guidance. This Regional Locational Guidance has been produced to assist developers in the wind, wave and tidal renewable energy industry to choose sites of maximum opportunity and minimum constraint.

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Table 1. Names and abbreviations for the Plan Options within the PFOW area.

Table 2. International designated sites in the vicinity of the PFOW area.

Table 3. SSSIs in the vicinity of the PFOW area. 27

Table 4. Summary of summed cetacean encounters in Scottish territorial waters and in the PFOW area. All cetaceans encounters taken from the Cetacean Atlas, (Reid et al., 2003). These show encounters per standard hour and have been multiplied by 1000 to reduce the decimal spaces in the figures. 29

Table 5. Summary of summed densities (all species in ESAS breeding dataset, per grid square) recorded within Scottish territorial waters and those only recorded within the PFOW extent. 34

Table 6. Number of active Scottish based vessels by district and length group as of 31 ^st December 2013 (Marine Scotland, 2014a) 40

Table 7. Ports, piers and harbours in the PFOW area 56

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