SEA6 Technical Report: Conservation Sites in the Irish Sea

The 2005 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA6 Technical Report - Conservation (Irish Sea) was produced for the UK Department of Trade and Industry. It identifies and describes coastal and nearshore sites within the Irish Sea region that are protected by international, national, and local conservation designations. The report covers an area over 400 km long, spanning five separate states/provinces, and includes vulnerability assessments for internationally important sites.

Use Cases

• Mapping protected coastal zones based on the listed conservation designations.
• Assessing site vulnerability for environmental impact studies as described in the report.
• Comparing conservation legislation and authority jurisdictions across the five states/provinces covered.

Strengths

• Report covers a specific, large geographic area stated to be over 400 km in length.
• Includes sites protected under multiple levels of designation: international, national, and local.
• Provides vulnerability assessments and management issues for internationally important sites.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; data structure must be inferred from the HTML report.
• Last update date is unknown; the data reflects a 2005 assessment and may not be current.
• The dataset is presented as an HTML report, which may require parsing to extract structured data.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Compiled as a technical report for the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA6).

Time Range

2005

Freshness

2005

Geography

Irish Sea, from the tip of SW Wales to the Mull of Kintyre.