Public Consultation on Fisheries Management Measures within Scottish Offshore Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)

11. Responses and Next Steps

11.1 Responding to this consultation

We are inviting responses to this consultation by 14 October 2024.

Please respond to the consultation using the Scottish Government’s consultation hub, Citizen Space. Access and respond to this consultation at Citizen Space.

You can save and return to your responses while the consultation is still open. Please ensure that consultation responses are submitted before the closing date of 14 October 2024.

If you are unable to respond using our consultation hub, please completed the Respondent Information Form. Please send the completed form with your response to:

marine_biodiversity@gov.scot

OR

Marine Biodiversity Team
Scottish Government
Area 1B North
Victoria Quay
Edinburgh
EH6 6QQ

If you have any enquiries, please direct them to marine_biodiversity@gov.scot

11.2 Handling your response

If you respond using the consultation hub, you will be directed to the About You page before submitting your response. Please indicate how you wish your response to be handled and, in particular, whether you are content for your response to be published. If you ask for your response not to be published, we will regard it as confidential, and will treat it accordingly.

All respondents should be aware that the Scottish Government is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2022 and would therefore have to consider any request made to it under the Act for information relating to the responses made to this consultation exercise.

To find out how we handle your personal data, please see our privacy policy: https://www.gov.scot/privacy/.