The Celtic Seas Partnership is producing a series of Best Practice Guidelines to support marine stakeholders in working and co-existing in ways which promote healthy, productive seas, towards the EU’s target of ‘Good Environmental Status’. Following a series of facilitated discussions, alongside the development of ten case studies from across the Celtic Seas, we have […]
‘Defra, the Northern Ireland Executive, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government have published the Marine Strategy Part Three: UK programme of measures. This outlines a comprehensive set of existing and planned measures that will help to achieve Good Environmental Status (GES) in our seas. The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) requires Member States to […]
The gestation of this paper and two others has been rather controversial – no doubt the full story will emerge in time – but it is, never the less, being seen both in the UK and in Brussels as a significant contribution to our understanding of the effects of climate change on good environmental status […]
The European Commission has published a report on the progress in establishing Marine Protected Areas (as required by Article 21 of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive 2008/56/EC). View the report at http://ec.europa.eu/environment/marine/eu-coast-and-marine-policy/implementation/pdf/marine_protected_areas.pdf.
The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) introduced a significant change in the scientific evidence requirements for supporting regulatory decisions by the marine regulatory and nature conservation agencies in the UK and the EU. Many of these decisions will result in a license or authorisation to undertake works in coastal, estuarine or marine areas, or to […]
This report published produced by Enfusion and Jim Claydon for Wales Wildlife Link aimed to assess how marine planning could be used as an effective tool to help deliver the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). It looked at How the MSFD descriptors could be linked with MSP objectives Reviewed what progress had been made with […]
This issue covers: John Robb’s retirement – Tanya Arkle is the interim Director Protecting Bass Sustainable fishing and MSY An update on scallop management Update on the discard ban Seafish’s Corporate plan Contact russ.greenwood@defra.gsi.gov.uk to sign up
Whilst I wouldn’t usually cover the individual responses to consultations this response is exceptional and the combined Links are to be congratulated on their co-ordinated efforts. The four country based Wildlife & Countryside Link organisations have combined forces to produce a comprehensive 61 page report covering all the descriptors covered by the MSFD. They set […]