THE SNP Scottish government must deliver on decade-old promises to protect declining marine environments, campaigners have warned.

To fanfare from conservation groups back in 2014, the government announced the creation of designated marine protected areas (MPAs) which would be shielded from “damaging fishing activities.”

But in a letter to acting SNP Net-Zero Secretary Gillian Martin, many of those same organisations have now hit out at a lack of progress since their introduction in 2016.