Publication - Impact assessment

Scottish Offshore Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) - fisheries management measures: island communities impact assessment (ICIA)

Published: 2 September 2025
From: Director of Marine
Directorate: Marine Directorate
Topic: Environment and climate change, Marine and fisheries
ISBN: 9781806430369

This assessment had been undertaken to consider the impacts of the measures under consideration on island communities in Scotland. It has been updated following public consultation.

Part of

Offshore Marine Protected Areas (MPAs): fisheries management measures

Supporting documents

Footnotes

1 Scottish Government (2022) Scotland’s Marine Economic Statistics 2019. Accessed September 2022.

2 SeaFish 2021. Seafood processing industry performance report. Accessed 13 September 2022.

3 The Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes Regulations 2004 [online] (accessed 07/03/2024)

4 Seafish (2022). 2021 Employment in the UK Fishing Fleet. [Online]. Accessed 08 September 2022.

5 Seafish (2019) Labour and Employment in UK seafood processing 2019 Annual Report. [Online]. Accessed 08 September 2022.

Contact

Email: Marine_biodiversity@gov.scot

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