Identification
- Title
- Cockle Fisheries
- Abstract
Schedule 1 of the The Cockle Fishing Management and Permitting (Specified Area) (Wales) Order 2024 defines the "specified area", i.e. an area (or public fishery) where cockles are harvested for commercial reasons and is managed by Welsh Government.
The coordinates in Schedule 1 of the 2024 Order refer to the following cockle fisheries:
- Three Rivers (this fishery contains five cockle beds i.e. Llansteffan, Llanybri, St Ishmaels/Tanylan, Ferryside and Gwendraeth)
- Whiteford Sands
- Burry Inlet
- Traeth Lafan
- Traeth Melynog
- Red Wharf Bay
- Licence
- Open Government Licence for Public Sector Information (OGL)
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Copyright:
- Publication date
- 12 May 2026
- Type
- Spatial data
- Category:
- Oceans
- Regions
- Global
- Approved
- Yes
- Published
- Yes
- Featured
- No
- Group
- Marine & Fisheries
Information
- Spatial extent
- Projection system
- EPSG:27700
- Extension x0
- 230166.765625
- Extension x1
- 268010.84375
- Extension y0
- 193048.09375
- Extension y1
- 382000.0
Features
- Spatial Representation Type
- Vector data is used to represent geographic data
Contact
- data@gov.wales
- Organisation
- Welsh Government
- Department
- Marine & Fisheries
References
- Link online
- /layers/geonode:cockle_order_specified_area
- Metadata page
- /layers/geonode:cockle_order_specified_area/metadata_detail
- GeoJSON
- Cockle Fisheries.json
- Excel
- Cockle Fisheries.excel
- CSV
- Cockle Fisheries.csv
- GML 3.1.1
- Cockle Fisheries.gml
- GML 2.0
- Cockle Fisheries.gml
- DXF
- Cockle Fisheries.dxf
- OGC Geopackage
- Cockle Fisheries.gpkg
- Zipped Shapefile
- Cockle Fisheries.zip