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Draft Fisheries Assessment – Faroe-Shetland Sponge Belt NCMPA: Fisheries management measures within Scottish Offshore Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)

Published: 19 August 2024
From: Acting Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero and Energy, +1 more … Director of Marine
Directorate: Marine Directorate
Topic: Environment and climate change, Marine and fisheries
ISBN: 9781836015925

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 Faroe-Shetland Sponge Belt NCMPA.

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1. Licensed under CC-BY 4.0 from the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) Seabed Habitats initiative (www.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu), funded by the European Commission.

2. feature-activity-sensitivity-tool.scot/search-activity

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