UK Cetacean Conservation Strategy: island communities impact assessment

4. Step Four – Assessment

The Strategy, acting as a framework for high-level recommendations and identifying future actions that could be taken forward to meet its vision, will not have a unique impact on island communities whether that be demographically, economically or socially. There is no evidence that the Strategy will impact on island communities in a manner which differs from rural areas and the rest of Scotland, and the wider UK. The vision for a clean, healthy, safe, productive, and biologically diverse marine and coastal environment will be worked towards with a focus on the challenges faced by cetacean populations across UK waters.