Video reveals devastation from scallop dredging on ‘protected’ Scottish seabed

Campaigners say marine protected area set up to save UK's only fan mussels exists merely as a paper park'

New underwater footage taken by environmental campaigners in Scotland has revealed severe damage to marine life and habitats wreaked by scallop dredgers in marine protected areas" (MPAs).

The Scottish government designated the seabed around the islands of Canna and Rum, on Scotland's west coast, as the Small Isles MPA in 2014, to conserve Britain's only colony of rare fan mussels and other features. The islands host a large breeding colony of black guillemots.