Publication - Progress report

Marine Protected Area Network - 2018 Report to the Scottish Parliament

A report to Parliament on progress being made in

implementing a Marine Protected Area (MPA) network.

The tables below list sites designated since 01 January 2013.

Table 1.1: Sites designated under the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010

Purpose	Name	Size (Km²)
Nature conservation	Clyde Sea Sill	712
	East Caithness Cliffs	114
	Fetlar to Haroldswick	216
	Loch Carron	23
	Loch Creran	12
	Loch Sunart	49
	Loch Sunart to the Sound of Jura	741
	Loch Sween	41
	Lochs Duich, Long and Alsh	37
	Monach Isles	62
	Mousa to Boddam	13
	Noss Head	8
	Papa Westray	33
	Small Isles	803
	South Arran	280
	Upper Loch Fyne and Loch Goil	88
	Wester Ross	599
	Wyre and Rousay Sounds	16
Demonstration and research	Fair Isle	157
Historic	Drumbeg	0.05
	Mingary	0.17
	Kinlochbervie	0.22
	Out Skerries	0.19
	Dartmouth	0.008
	Duart Point	0.013
	Campania	0.07
	Iona I	0.025

Table 1.2: Sites designated under the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009

Name	Size (Km²)
Central Fladen	925
East of Gannet and Montrose Fields	1,839
Faroe-Shetland Sponge Belt	5,278
Firth of Forth Banks Complex	2,130
Geikie Slide and Hebridean Slope	2,215
Hatton-Rockall Basin	1,256
North-east Faroe-Shetland Channel	23,682
North-west Orkney	4,365
Norwegian Boundary Sediment Plain	164
Rosemary Bank Seamount	6,927
The Barra Fan and Hebrides Terrace Seamount	4,373
Turbot Bank	251
West Shetland Shelf	4,083

Table 1.3: Sites designated under The Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations 1994

Name	Size (Km²)
Inner Hebrides and the Minches	13,802
Sound of Barra	125

Table 1.4: Sites amended under the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010

Site Name	Reason for amendment
Fetlar to Haroldswick	Both sites were re-designated to correct errors in the site boundary description. This did not change the accepted boundary, the area, or the protected features at either site.
Small Isles

Table 1.5: Sites amended under The Conservation of Offshore Marine Habitats and Species Regulations 2017

Site name	Size (Km²)	Amendments
Braemar Pockmark	11	Site increased in size by 6.25 Km²
Scanner Pockmarks	7	Site increased in size by 3.39 Km²

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