Current status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 14 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-24905 by Mairi Gougeon on 19 September 2019, whether Marine Scotland Science observed trawl marks or damage to the PMFs while surveying the MPA.
Potential trawl marks were seen on a number of video tows from a survey carried out in August/September 2019. Analyses of the survey data are ongoing.