Proper management of MPAs is needed urgently

I read with interest and anger that a further incursion of illegal dredging has been tracked in a Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the Sound of Mull (The Oban Times, February 14).

It would seem to me that seabed damage by such activity is unacceptable, not just in MPAs but in much of our inshore waters, since these seabeds in fairly shallow waters are the nursery ecosystems for many of our valued marine creatures, be they immature fish, and sustainable shellfish