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Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) shellfish water protected areas in England
This dataset contains the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017 shellfish water protected area designations in England. These are waters designated by the Secretary of State as protected areas under the Water Framework Regulations in order to protect or develop economically significant shellfish production. The polygons are based on Ordnance Survey tidal water open data as source base data with boundary extents as originally described in the schedule
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Licence: ["Contains OS data \u00a9 Crown copyright and database right (2017)", "Contains OS data \u00a9 Crown copyright and database right (2017)"]
Evidence quality: 33.6
Listed in data.gov.uk public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z
Evidence
- https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=490de652-8c27-4537-aab3-5fc5ff455b7a&fileName=Water_Environment_Water_Framework_Directive_shellfish_water_protected_areas_in_England.gdb.zip
- https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/a276c27a-1245-488f-b724-74f86f3ae766/water-environment-water-framework-directive-shellfish-water-protected-areas-in-england
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