Sea Scotland Conference 2026

Sea Scotland 2026 is taking place on 27th October 2026!

What’s more, it’s Sea Scotland's 10th birthday! Sea Scotland started at the Discovery Point, Dundee, back in June 2016 and it has gone from strength to strength ever since. To mark the occasion, they be going back to the Discovery Point, Dundee for their conference this year. So mark it in your diaries!

Sea Scotland is also delighted to announce that for this year’s conference they will be exploring the theme (drumroll, please): Joining the dots to safeguard Scotland’s seas.

Through this theme, they be asking key questions such as:

• How small-scale, place-based initiatives align with, and inform, large-scale national frameworks, and vice versa.
• How do regional priorities feed into national strategy?
• How do national ambitions enable, rather than constrain, local delivery?
• And crucially, how do we ensure that planning and restoration efforts at different scales are coherent, mutually reinforcing, and adequately resourced?

What is 'Sea Scotland'?

Sea Scotland is an annual conference series which has been held since 2016 and aims to bring together the marine community and facilitate debate on critical issues facing the marine environment in Scotland.  It is co-ordinated by a Steering Group comprising Scottish Environment LINK and their Marine Group Members (Scottish Wildlife Trust, Marine Conservation Society, Young Sea Changers Scotland), Fauna and Flora International, Howell Marine Consulting, Nature Scot, and the University of Edinburgh.

Past Sea Scotland conferences have attracted a wide range of Scottish marine stakeholders, providing a multi-interest forum for dialogue and knowledge-exchange for progressive marine policy and management. More information on previous Sea Scotland conferences can be found in the Archives section on their website.