Closed area · Scottish Government (Marine Scotland)
Bottom-towed gear prohibited
The Inshore Fishing (Prohibition of Fishing and Fishing Methods) (Scotland) Order 2015 - SSI 2015 No. 435 (Art 8) · in force since 2022-01-01
A CAUGHT review has read the instrument behind this closure, rather than relying on the summary published with the boundary. Where the two differ, the instrument governs; this reading was made on 2026-11-03.
fishing with a trawl or dredge (feed summary of a licence condition, not the Order)
Rule reviewed and not settled: the mapped area extends slightly beyond the Order's Lochs Duich, Long and Alsh boundary into the Southern Inner Sound, where the Order permits some towed gear from April to September.
The vessel to which this licence relates is prohibited, at all times, from fishing with a trawl or dredge (including a suction dredge). Any trawl or dredge (including any suction dredge) carried on board the vessel must be properly lashed and stowed in such a way that it may not be used readily and to avoid any doubt of its deployment in the water.
Summary as published in the source dataset, shown for comparison. A dataset paraphrase can be narrower or wider than the instrument it summarises, and finding out which is the work above.
No cases have been recorded in this closure. That is not a finding that nothing happens here — it means our sweeps have not flagged anything inside these boundaries, and coverage depends on satellite passes and on vessels being tracked at all.
What a case here means. A CAUGHT case is a reason to look, not a verdict. Each one is judged on three independent factors — was it fishing, here and then; what gear does the vessel actually use; and what was prohibited there at that time — and the weakest of the three decides. Most cases are resolved.
Boundaries and rule summaries come from the published datasets named at the foot of this page and can contain errors; the legislation is the authority. If you believe this closure is described wrongly, tell us at contact@caught.org.uk.
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