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Offshore Marine Protected Areas - fisheries management measures: supporting guidance on coordinates and restrictions:
Detailed guidance on site-specific fisheries management measures within Scottish Offshore Marine Protected Areas, including restricted gear types, gear codes, and precise area coordinates, to support compliance and promote sustainable use of marine resources in designated protected zones.
Description of fishing methods
The fishing gear types referenced throughout the document, along with their associated gear codes are detailed below. They are grouped into two main categories:
- demersal mobile gear, and;
- demersal static gear.
Demersal Mobile Gear
- Bottom Trawls
- Gear types: Bottom otter trawl, nephrops trawl, shrimp trawl, otter twin trawl, bottom pair trawl, bottom trawl (not specified)
- Gear codes: OTB, OTT, PTB, TBN, TBS, TB
- Beam Trawls
- Gear type: Beam trawl
- Gear code: TBB
- Seines
- Gear types: Danish anchor seine, Scottish seine, Scottish fly seine
- Gear codes: SDN, SSC, SPR, SX, SV
- Dredges (boat and mechanised)
- Gear types: Dredge, mechanised dredge
- Gear codes: DRB, HMD
Demersal Static Gear
- Pots / Traps / Creels
- Gear types: Pots, traps (not specified)
- Gear codes: FIX, FPO
- Floated Demersal Longlines
- Gear types: Set longlines, longlines (not specified), hooks and lines (not specified)
- Gear codes: LL, LLS, LX
- Set / Static Nets (e.g. gillnets, driftnets)
- Gear types: Anchored gillnet, drift gillnet, circling gillnet, combined gillnet-trammel nets, trammel net, gillnet (not specified)
- Gear codes: GN, GNC, GNS, GTN, GTR
Contact
Email: Marine_biodiversity@gov.scot