The Fair Isle Marine Environment and Tourism Initiative has put forward a proposal for a Demonstration and Research Marine Protected Area within the Scottish MPA network as outlined in the Scottish Marine Bill (2010). The proposed MPA is intended to serve three purposes:

- to trial a series of management measures, supplemented by interpretation and dissemination, which demonstrate the role of MPAs in delivering fully sustainable marine management;
- to demonstrate the relationship between a fully functioning marine environment and the socio-economic stability of peripheral coastal communities;
- to meet a requirement of the Council of Europe in the form of a condition on the renewal of the Council of Europe Diploma for Fair Isle.

You can download the Fair Isle MPA proposal here