The Scottish Government

Scottish Sustainable Marine Environment Initiative

Aims

• Promote more holistic and integrated approaches that embrace the key principles of marine management
• Link and integrate existing management instruments
• Employ effective mechanisms to increase awareness and appropriate communication between resource users and other stakeholders
• Enable the development and evaluation of innovative management approaches, including promotion of techniques to assist users to better manage their resources
• Ensure consistency with International, UK and Scottish Government commitments and obligations

Outcomes

• Establish a suite of pilot schemes, developing transferable and applicable innovative approaches to delivering sustainable marine management for Scotland
• Ensure an economically and socially sustainable future for Scotland's coastal communities and marine industries
• Deliver environmental benefits whilst supporting sustainable use of natural resources