SWT are urging members to email their MSP today and ask them to vote in favour of a Scottish Marine Bill that delivers a real recovery of Scotland’s seas.

 

Thanks to the huge response to our action alert in November, some important amendments have been made to strengthen the Scottish Marine Bill. This will help improve the chances of Scotland’s seas recovering from decades of over-exploitation.

 

But the biggest and most urgent issue was not addressed: the bill does not deal with improving the health of the sea outside Marine Protected Areas. This leaves most of Scotland’s seas open to continuing exploitation and decline, unable to reverse the fortunes of marine wildlife and coastal communities.

 

There is one last chance to change this – when MSPs vote on the issue at the final debate in the Scottish Parliament in the first week of February