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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.
Background
NatureScot's advice takes into account the status of flapper skate as:
- a protected feature of the Loch Sunart to the Sound of Jura Marine Protected Area; and
- a species on the OSPAR Threatened and/or Declining Species and Habitats List, the list of Priority Marine Features and identified as 'critically endangered' on the IUCN Red List.
It also takes into account the protection that flapper skate receive from being one of the listed sharks, skates and rays that are prohibited from being landed as a commercial species.
Contact
Email: marine_conservation@gov.scot
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