Planning Scotland's Seas: Possible Nature Conservation Marine Protected Areas. Consultation Analysis Report
Planning Scotland’s Seas: Possible Nature Conservation Marine Protected Areas was published for consultation in July 2013. It set out proposals for a number of new Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Independent analysis of written consultation responses was
Appendix 3: Possible Marine protected areas
| OSPAR Region(s) |
Possible MPA / MPA search location (asterisked) |
Territorial / Offshore |
|---|---|---|
| I |
Faroe-Shetland sponge belt |
Offshore |
| I & II |
North-east Faroe Shetland Channel |
Offshore |
| II |
Central Fladen |
Offshore |
| East Caithness Cliffs |
Territorial |
|
| East of Gannet and Montrose Fields |
Offshore |
|
| Fetlar to Haroldswick |
Territorial |
|
| Firth of Forth Banks Complex |
Offshore |
|
| Mousa to Boddam |
Territorial |
|
| North-west Orkney |
Both |
|
| Norwegian boundary sediment plain |
Offshore |
|
| Noss Head |
Territorial |
|
| Papa Westray |
Territorial |
|
| South-east Fladen |
Offshore |
|
| Southern Trench* |
Territorial |
|
| Turbot Bank |
Offshore |
|
| Western Fladen |
Offshore |
|
| Wyre and Rousay Sounds |
Territorial |
|
| II & III |
West Shetland Shelf (formerly Windsock) |
Offshore |
| III |
Clyde Sea Sill |
Territorial |
| Eye Peninsula to Butt of Lewis* |
Territorial |
|
| Loch Creran |
Territorial |
|
| Lochs Duich, Long and Alsh |
Territorial |
|
| Loch Sunart |
Territorial |
|
| Loch Sunart to the Sound of Jura |
Territorial |
|
| Loch Sween |
Territorial |
|
| Monach Isles |
Territorial |
|
| North-west sea lochs and Summer Isles |
Territorial |
|
| Shiant East Bank* |
Territorial |
|
| Skye to Mull* |
Territorial |
|
| Small Isles |
Territorial |
|
| South Arran |
Territorial |
|
| Upper Loch Fyne and Loch Goil |
Territorial |
|
| III & V |
Geike Slide and Hebridean Slope |
Offshore |
| South-west Sula Sgeir and Hebridean Slope |
Offshore |
|
| The Barra Fan and Hebrides Terrace Seamount |
Offshore |
|
| V |
Hatton-Rockall Basin |
Offshore |
| Rosemary Bank Seamount |
Offshore |