Publication - Impact assessment
North-east Lewis Marine Protected Area: business and regulatory impact assessment
An assessment of the business and regulatory impacts of designating the North-east Lewis Marine Protected Area.
Proposal and conservation objectives
The Scottish Government proposes to designate the North-east Lewis as an MPA to further its conservation objectives.
North-east Lewis pMPA encompasses two biodiversity features: Risso's dolphin and sandeels. The protected features also include Quaternary of Scotland interests (represented by glaciated channels/troughs, landscape of areal glacial scour and megascale glacial lineations) and Marine Geomorphology of the Scottish Shelf Seabed interests (represented by the longitudinal bedform field).
| Summary of Features and Conservation Objective - North-east Lewis pMPA | ||
|---|---|---|
| Feature Type | Proposed Protected Feature | Conservation Objective |
| Biodiversity | Risso's dolphin | Conserve |
| Biodiversity | Sandeels | Conserve |
| Geodiversity | Marine geomorphology of the Scottish shelf | Conserve |
| Geodiversity | Quaternary of Scotland | Conserve |
Contact
Email: marine_conservation@gov.scot
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