Comments on ‘Marine Protected Areas in the Seas around Scotland: Guidelines on the selection of MPAs and development of the MPA network’

Scottish Environment LINK’s Marine Task Force (LINK MTF) welcome the opportunity to comment on the draft guidance on the selection of MPAs and development of the MPA network. We are largely supportive of the draft guidance as presented and we believe that the draft guidance provides an excellent framework for meeting our international commitment of setting up a representative, ecologically coherent network of MPAs. However, we have some outstanding concerns and these are set out in the detailed comments below…