Scottish waters definition

Scottish waters means waters which are to be treated as internal waters or territorial sea of the United Kingdom adjacent to Scotland for the purpose of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46);
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Scottish waters means the area comprising such of the internal waters and territorial sea of the United Kingdom as are within Scotland
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Examples of Scottish waters in a sentence

  • Seabird bycatch: As part of a suite of analyses on seabird bycatch in UK waters, covering a range of AEWA listed species, ▇▇▇▇▇ & JNCC have published reports on ▇▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇.▇▇/ProjectDetails?ProjectId=20461: Ongoing work is identifying areas and fisheries around the UK that might be suitable for regional pilot schemes to undertake seabird bycatch mitigation trials (Defra), and a more in-depth study of bycatch of Northern Fulmar in Scottish waters (Scottish Government).

  • Under related, but separate legislation, Marine Scotland within the Scottish Government is responsible for marine planning in Scottish waters and the devolved administrations of Wales and Northern Ireland are in the process of setting up their own arrangements in relation to marine planning in their territorial waters.

  • Empirical and fitted marginal distributions of significant wave height for access channel to port of Antwerp (left), Scottish waters (middle) and the port of Leixões (right) Noting that these measurements refer to fixed observation locations, whereas ship masters do not remain on the same position near the coast in a growing storm, but either search for shelter or leave to the open sea, SHOPERA has used also several other sources to estimate rationally the required standard wave heights.

  • As the evidence base is restricted to Scottish waters, further research may be required in other locations to determine the transferability of the results.