Fisheries Management Measures within Scottish Offshore Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) - Strategic Environmental Assessment Environmental Report

Next Steps

The consultation on the two proposed management measures options and the accompanying Environmental Report is now open, and will close 14 October 2024. Views and opinions on this Environmental Report, and the proposed management measures, are now invited.

The consultation questionnaire asks for comments on the proposed management approaches for each of the offshore MPAs, which includes a question on the economic, social, and environmental assessments of the impact of the management approaches. Please provide any comments on this environmental assessment in your responses to the questionnaire, including any comments on general issues or cumulative effects.

Following the consultation period, the responses received will be analysed, and the findings from this analysis will be taken into account in the finalisation of the proposed management measures.

A Post-Adoption SEA Statement will be prepared, reflecting the findings of the assessment and the views expressed in the consultation, and outlining how the issues raised have been considered.

If you require access to a paper copy then please get in touch so that arrangements can be made for you to view them during office hours.

Please send comments online at: https://consult.gov.scot/marine-scotland/fisheries-management-measures-within-offshore-mpas. If you are unable to respond online, then please send your response with a completed respondent information form to:

By email to: marine_biodiversity@gov.scot

By post to:

Fisheries Management Measures within Scottish Offshore Marine

Protected Areas

Marine Biodiversity Team

Scottish Government

Area 1-B North

Victoria Quay

Edinburgh

EH6 6QQ

On line: Scottish Government - Citizen Space (consult.gov.scot)

If you have any enquiries please send them to: marine_biodiversity@gov.scot