Editing Fair Isle (section)

==Conservation designations==
Most of the island is designated by [[NatureScot]] as both a [[Site of Special Scientific Interest]] (SSSI) and a [[Special Area of Conservation]] (SCA).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sitelink.nature.scot/site/620|title=Fair Isle SSSI|access-date=12 October 2020|publisher=NatureScot|archive-date=25 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125221037/https://sitelink.nature.scot/site/620|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://sitelink.nature.scot/site/8253|title=Fair Isle SAC|access-date=12 October 2020|publisher=NatureScot|archive-date=2 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190902095446/https://sitelink.nature.scot/site/8253|url-status=live}}</ref> The island and its surrounding seas are also designated by NatureScot as a [[Special Protection Area]] (SPA) due to the important bird species present.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sitelink.nature.scot/site/8496|title=Fair Isle SPA|access-date=12 October 2020|publisher=NatureScot|archive-date=2 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190902095446/https://sitelink.nature.scot/site/8496|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2016 the seas around Fair Isle were designated as a [[Marine Protected Areas in Scotland|Marine Protected Area]] (MPA).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sitelink.nature.scot/site/10499|title=Fair Isle MPA(DR)|access-date=12 October 2020|publisher=NatureScot|archive-date=16 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190816095231/https://sitelink.nature.scot/site/10499|url-status=live}}</ref> As of 2019 it is the only MPA in Scotland to be designated specifically as a "Demonstration and Research" MPA.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/progress-report/2018/12/marine-protected-area-network-2018-report-scottish-parliament/documents/00544750-pdf/00544750-pdf/govscot%3Adocument/00544750.pdf|title=Scottish MPA network – Parliamentary Report|publisher=Scottish Government|date=December 2018|access-date=2 September 2019|page=28|archive-date=18 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190818132520/https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/progress-report/2018/12/marine-protected-area-network-2018-report-scottish-parliament/documents/00544750-pdf/00544750-pdf/govscot:document/00544750.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> The aims of this MPA designation are defined as being:
{{Poem quote|To demonstrate and research the use of an ecosystem approach, which includes the following –
a) the environmental monitoring of seabirds and of other mobile marine species;
b) the environmental monitoring of the factors which influence the populations of seabirds and of other mobile species;
c) the development and implementation of a local sustainable shellfish fishery;
d) the development of a research programme into local fisheries which includes research on species composition, size, distribution and temporal and spatial changes in fish stocks;
e) based upon the research undertaken under sub-paragraph (d), the development of a sustainable-use management programme for local fisheries.|Scottish Government<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/progress-report/2018/12/marine-protected-area-network-2018-report-scottish-parliament/documents/00544750-pdf/00544750-pdf/govscot%3Adocument/00544750.pdf|title=Scottish MPA network – Parliamentary Report|publisher=Scottish Government|date=December 2018|access-date=2 September 2019|page=45|archive-date=18 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190818132520/https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/progress-report/2018/12/marine-protected-area-network-2018-report-scottish-parliament/documents/00544750-pdf/00544750-pdf/govscot:document/00544750.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>}}