Current status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 19 September 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what area, in hectares, is currently covered by a year-round prohibition on the use of creels for fishing under schedule 2 of the Inshore Fishing (Prohibition of Fishing and Fishing Methods) (Scotland) Order 2004.
As of April 2024 - 12,689 hectares were closed to creeling within the 6 nautical miles limit adjacent to Scotland.