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Draft Fisheries Assessment – Hatton Bank SAC: 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: 9781836013877

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 Hatton Bank SAC.

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1 Regulation (EU) 2016/2336 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2016 establishing specific conditions for fishing for deep-sea stocks in the north-east Atlantic and provisions for fishing in international waters of the north-east Atlantic.

2 NEAFC Rec 19 2014: Article 5 Area closures for the protection of VMEs 1. Area closures for the protection of VMEs in the Regulatory Area shall be based on advice by ICES and regulating fishing in the Regulatory Area 2. Bottom fishing shall be prohibited in the following areas, within the coordinates as defined in Annex 2… Hatton bank 1

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