Marine Fund Scotland 2026-27: general guidance notes

Footnotes

1 SSI 2022/85

2 The specific purposes for which Scottish Ministers may offer grant funding are set out at paragraph

3 (1) of schedule 6 of the Fisheries Act 2020

4 See section 52 of the Fisheries Act 2020 for the definition of “the marine and aquatic environment”. ⁵ See section 52 of the Fisheries Act 2020 for the definition of “commercial fish or aquaculture activities” and related definitions.

5 “Natural capital” is a way of thinking about nature (natural assets including geology, soil, air, water and plants and animals) as a stock that provides a flow of benefits to people and the economy. The flow of benefits and the capacity of nature to deliver those benefits both need to be maintained, including through investment in the maintenance and enhancement of the natural assets (see Box 1 on page 15 of Scotland’s Blue Economy Vision document for more information).

6 See section 52 of the Fisheries Act 2020 for the definition of an “aquaculture organism”