Flapper Skate protection: NatureScot advice to the Scottish Government
This document contains NatureScot's statutory conservation advice to Scottish Ministers regarding the protection of flapper skate eggs in the Inner Sound of Skye. This advice was considered by Ministers and contributed to their decision to designate the Red Rocks and Longay Urgent MPA.
Footnotes
1. https://www.sharktrust.org/Pages/FAQs/Category/eggcases-of-british-isles-nw-europe
2. Note that we are letting a contract this financial year to undertake an update of the FeAST sensitivity assessment for flapper skate alongside other PMF fish species
3. FeAST - Feature Activity Sensitivity Tool
4. Neat F, Pinto C, Burrett I, Cowie L, Travis J, Thorburn J, Gibb F, Wright P (2015) Site fidelity, survival and conservation options for the threatened flapper skate (Dipturus cf, intermedia). Aquatic Conserv: Mar Freshw Ecosyst 25:6-20
5. Thorburn J, Dodd J, Neat F (2018) Spatial ecology of flapper skate (Dipturus intermedius – Dipturus batis complex) and spurdog (Squalus acanthias) in relation to the Loch Sunart to the Sound of Jura Marine Protected Area and Loch Etive. SNH Research Report No. 1011
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