Publication - Consultation paper
Protected areas for mobile marine species: consultation on proposals to designate four new Marine Protected Areas in Scottish waters
An overview of the consultation on proposals to designate four new Marine Protected Areas in Scottish waters, including short summaries of the available documentation.
The Possible Marine Protected Areas (pMPAs)
This section summarises information from the various documents which underpin this consultation. Table 2 provides the name, size, and proposed protected features of each site. The locations are shown on Figure 2.
Table 2: The four possible MPAs
| Site Name | Size (km2) | Proposed Protected Features | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biodiversity | Geodiversity | ||
| North-east Lewis | 907 | Risso's dolphins, sandeels | Marine geomorphology of the Scottish shelf bed, Quaternary of Scotland |
| Sea of the Hebrides | 10,039 | Basking sharks, minke whales, fronts | Marine geomorphology of the Scottish shelf seabed |
| Shiant East Bank | 308 | Circalittoral sands and mixed sediment communities, Northern sea fan and sponge communities, shelf banks and mounds | Quaternary of Scotland |
| Southern Trench | 2,536 | Burrowed mud, minke whales, fronts, shelf deeps | Quaternary of Scotland, Submarine Mass Movement |
Figure 2: The four possible MPAs
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Email: lily.burke@gov.scot
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