Have Your Say on the Arran MPA!
Public consultation on marine planning begins
COAST welcomes the opportunity to demonstrate community support for the Government’s proposed network of 33 Scottish Marine Protected Areas during the 16 week public consultation. The network includes 4 much-needed MPAs in the Clyde including the proposed South Arran MPA. ( COAST MPA Consultation News Release).
We value your support and comments. Please read COAST's position on SNH's management options paper for South Arran and let us know what you think. The consultation is part of a wider Marine Scotland consultation on marine planning. We will be analysing the relevant consultation papers over the next month, talking to local stakeholders and providing advice on the best way to provide a written response.
Marine Scotland and SNH will hold a consultation on Arran on the 28th of August at the Ormidale Pavilion in Brodick between 1pm and 8pm. Please pop in and tell them why we need an MPA for Arran (See FAQs etc below).
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FAQ's
Marine Protected Area FAQ's: Muddled about MPA’s? No clue about No Take Zones? Find the answers to COAST’s most frequently asked questions here!
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Feather Stars
The species of the month is the feather star: a surprisingly exotic animal that frequents our shores. Their unique shape and structure helps to enhance the structural complexity of the seafloor. Clinging on with claw-like appendages clustered under the middle of their arms. Read More |
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NTZ sea life bounces back!
Research showing seabed and scallop recovery within NTZ is a boost for Arran MPA. Link to research and latest findings from 4 years of surveys.
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How to Get Involved
What can you do? Visit our MPA facebook page to see what the community has been doing, look at the fantastic Octopus Mosaic made by Robin Jenks. Get an MPA window sticker.
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Video
Arran South MPA: The campaign and what we still need to do! Overview talk from Howard Wood.
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Trisha Murphy has joined the COAST Team this summer as video editor.
Links:
Save Our Seas Newsletter |
MPA National Picture
The Arran MPA is one of 33 proposed Nature Conservation MPA proposals in Scotland. If every one of these proposals were taken through to designation, the new MPAs would represent 12% of the area of Scotland’s seas.
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