Draft Fisheries Assessment – Central Fladen NCMPA: Fisheries management measures within Scottish Offshore Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
These assessments look at the fishing activity occurring within each offshore MPA and SAC and assess the potential impacts of this activity on the protected features within each site. This assessment is for Central Fladen NCMPA.
6 Proposed management conclusion
Scottish Ministers consider that adopting no additional management measures for demersal trawls would, or might, hinder the achievement of the conservation objectives for Central Fladen NCMPA.
Scottish Ministers consider that both the zoned management measures and the full site exclusion option for demersal mobile fishing (including demersal seines) outlined above would further the conservation objectives of the site.
The decision on which management option is to be taken forward will be taken in the light of all relevant duties incumbent upon the Scottish Ministers in relation to the exercise of their functions and following upon a statutory public consultation exercise in which views on the options under consideration are invited.
Contact
Email: marine_biodiversity@gov.scot
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