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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.
Sites by ICES Region
This list shows the protected areas grouped by their ICES fishing regions. Each area includes the names of the sites inside it.
ICES Area 2a – Faroe-Shetland Channel
- North-east Faroe-Shetland Channel MPA (also 4a)
ICES Area 4a – Northern North Sea
- Braemar Pockmarks SAC
- Central Fladen MPA
- East of Gannet and Montrose Fields MPA (also 4b)
- Faroe-Shetland Sponge Belt MPA (also 5b, 6a)
- North-east Faroe-Shetland Channel MPA (also 2a)
- Norwegian Boundary Sediment Plain MPA
- Pobie Bank Reef SAC
- Scanner Pockmark SAC
ICES Area 4b – Southern North Sea
- East of Gannet and Montrose Fields MPA (also 4a)
- Firth of Forth Banks Complex MPA
ICES Area 5b – Faeroe Bank
- Faroe-Shetland Sponge Belt MPA(also 4a, 6a)
- West of Scotland MPA (also 6a, 6b)
- Wyville Thomson Ridge SAC (also 6a)
ICES Area 6a – West of Scotland
- Anton Dohrn Seamount SAC
- Darwin Mounds SAC
- Faroe-Shetland Sponge Belt MPA (also 4a, 5b)
- Geikie Slide and Hebridean Slope MPA
- Solan Bank Reef SAC
- Stanton Banks SAC
- The Barra Fan and Hebrides Terrace Seamount MPA
- West Shetland Shelf MPA
- West of Scotland MPA (also 5b, 6b
- Wyville Thomson Ridge SAC (also 5b)
ICES Area 6b – Rockall and Hatton Bank
- East Rockall Bank SAC
- North-west Rockall Bank SAC
- West of Scotland MPA (also 5b, 6a)
Contact
Email: Marine_biodiversity@gov.scot