Clyde marine region basic

As explained on the Configurations page, any MSP Challenge edition is configurable to fit your own requirements. The best way to do this is by editing the basic configuration file of a particular edition.

The Clyde marine region edition has a basic configuration with the following main parameters:

• Start date January 2018, end date January 2050
• So each of the standard four eras covers eight years:
  • Era 1: Jan 2018 - Jan 2026
  • Era 2: Jan 2026 - Jan 2034
  • Era 3: Jan 2034 - Jan 2042
  • Era 4: Jan 2042 - Jan 2050
• Six planning regions (confirm when we have the possibility to open the game again):
  • Orange (North Ayrshire Council)
  • Yellow (Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park)
  • Blue (Inverclyde Council)
  • Purple (Dumfries and Galloway Council)
  • Green (South Ayrshire Council)
  • Red (Argyll and Bute)
• Dataset as stipulated on the Data sources page. See the Clyde marine region edition table.
• Two background simulations:
  • Ecopath-with-Ecosim ecosystem simulation, and predefined ecosystem pressures (noise, artificial substrate, surface disturbance, bottom disturbance, fishing efforts and protection from fishing activities) generated from different human activities.
  • Shipping simulation, monthly ship traffic entering, leaving or within the Clyde Marine region.
• Restrictions and errors:
  • Errors when planning different physically-obstructing human activities on the same place, e.g. a wind farm on a shipping lane, or vice versa.
  • Warnings when planning human activities with defined ecosystem pressures in an MPA or Natura2000 site, or vice versa.

Data sources

Layer name	Main category	Sub category	Source	Last update
Councils	Management	Governance	Marine Scotland (Drew)	Dec/17
Marine Regions	Management	Governance	Marine Scotland (Drew)	Dec/17
Planning Regions	Management	Governance	Marine Scotland (Drew)	Dec/17
Populated Places	Management	Governance	http://www.naturalearthdata.com	Jun/17
Roads	Management	Governance	http://www.naturalearthdata.com
Railroads	Management	Governance	http://www.naturalearthdata.com
Airports	Management	Governance	http://www.naturalearthdata.com
Territorial Waters	Management	Governance	N.A.	N.A.
Fossil Fuel Availability	Management	Natural Resources	N.A.	N.A.
Sand and Gravel Availability	Management	Natural Resources	N.A.	N.A.
Topography	N.A.	N.A.	https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/satellite-derived-products/eu-dem/eu-dem-v1.1	Dec/17
Bathymetry	Management	Environmental conditions	Emodnet	May/17
Water Quality	Management	Environmental conditions	Marine Scotland (Drew)	Dec/17
Sediment Type	Management	Environmental conditions	Emodnet	NA
Dredging locations	Activities	Shipping	Marine Scotland (Drew)	Dec/17
Disposal Sites	Activities	Shipping	Marine Scotland (Drew)	Dec/17
Anchorages	Activities	Shipping	Marine Scotland (Drew)	Dec/17
Ports	Activities	Shipping	Marine Scotland (Drew)	Dec/17
Transport routes	Activities	Shipping	Marine Scotland (Drew)	Dec/17
Cultural Heritage (wreckages)	Activities	Shipping	Marine Scotland (Drew)	Dec/17
Harbour areas	Activities	Shipping	Marine Scotland (Drew)	Dec/17
Shipping Intensity passengers	Activities	Shipping	Marine Scotland (Drew)
Shipping Intensity Cargo	Activities	Shipping	Marine Scotland (Drew)
Shipping Intensity Tankers	Activities	Shipping	Marine Scotland (Drew)
Cables	Activities	Energy	Emodnet (only telecom cables)	Dec/17
Water temperature	Management	Environmental conditions	Not enough variance or coverage
Salinity	Management	Environmental conditions	Not enough variance or coverage
Current intensity	Management	Environmental conditions	Country/region dependent
Wind intensity	Management	Environmental conditions	newables-atlas.info, see tab for terms and conditions
Wave Power	Management	Environmental conditions
Marinas	Activities	Recreation	RYA	Dec/17
RYA Clubs and Training Centres	Activities	Recreation	RYA (via MS)	Dec/17
Scuba	Activities	Recreation	Marine Scotland Survey (Drew)	Dec/17
Rowing	Activities	Recreation	Marine Scotland Survey (Drew)	Dec/17
Canoeing	Activities	Recreation	Marine Scotland Survey (Drew)	Feb/18
Windsurfing	Activities	Recreation	Marine Scotland Survey (Drew)	Dec/17
Walking	Activities	Recreation	Marine Scotland Survey (Drew)	Jan/18
Birds Watching	Activities	Recreation	Marine Scotland Survey (Drew)	Dec/17
Sea angling from shore	Activities	Recreation	Marine Scotland Survey (Drew)	Dec/17
Sea angling from boat	Activities	Recreation	Marine Scotland Survey (Drew)	Mar/18
General Boating areas	Activities	Recreation	RYA	Dec/17
Recreational Boats shipping intensity	Activities	Recreation	Marine Scotland RYA Survey (Drew)	Dec/17
Fish Farm	Activities	Aquaculture	Marine Scotland (Drew)	Dec/17
Fishery Site	Activities	Aquaculture	Marine Scotland (Drew)
Shellfish Farm	Activities	Aquaculture	Marine Scotland (Drew)	Dec/17
Demersal trawl catch	Activities	Fishing	EwE	NA
Seine catch	Activities	Fishing	EwE	NA
Nephrops trawl catch	Activities	Fishing	EwE	NA
Scallops fleet catch	Activities	Fishing	EwE	NA
Electicity Sockets	Activities	Energy
Junction boxes	Activities	Energy
Nephrops Static	Activities	Fishing	NA anymore since we are integrating the EwE model
Nephrops Mobile	Activities	Fishing	NA anymore since we are integrating the EwE model
Scallops	Activities	Fishing	NA anymore since we are integrating the EwE model
Demersal Mobile	Activities	Fishing	NA anymore since we are integrating the EwE model
Pelagic Herring	Activities	Fishing	NA anymore since we are integrating the EwE model
Natura2000 Areas	Ecology	Protected Areas	Drew (merged SPAs and SACs)	Dec/17
Marine Protected Area	Ecology	Protected Areas	Drew (might have to review types according to the fleets used in EwE	Dec/17
Bottom disturbance	Ecology	Pressure	Pressure calculation (MEL)	NA
Artificial substrate	Ecology	Pressure	Pressure calculation (MEL)	NA
Noise	Ecology	Pressure	Pressure calculation (MEL)	NA
Surface disturbance	Ecology	Pressure	Pressure calculation (MEL)	NA
Protection against fishing	Ecology	Pressure	Pressure calculation (MEL)	NA
Several species, according to regional relevance	Ecology	Fish and benthos	EwE	NA
Several species, according to regional relevance	Ecology	Birds and Mammals	EwE	NA
Telecom Sockets	Activities	Telecommunications	Emodnet
Artificial substrate	Dynamic layers	Pressure	Calculated by MSP
Bottom disturbance	Dynamic layers	Pressure	Calculated by MSP
Noise	Dynamic layers	Pressure	Calculated by MSP
Protected areas	Dynamic layers	Pressure	Calculated by MSP
Surface disturbance	Dynamic layers	Pressure	Calculated by MSP
Construction	Dynamic layers	Temporary Restricted zones	Calculated by MSP
Coastal habitats	Ecology	Habitats	Search for info
Marine habitats	Ecology	Habitats	Ask EII if they can provide this
Several species, according to regional relevance	Ecology	Birds	EwE
Several species, according to regional relevance	Ecology	Fish	EwE
Several species, according to regional relevance	Ecology	Macrobenthos	EwE
Several species, according to regional relevance	Ecology	Marine Mamals	EwE
spawning/nursery areas	Ecology	Sensitive Areas
Vulnerable areas	Ecology	Sensitive Areas