The delegate notes and presentations from this one day event covering a wide range of viewpoints from regulators, consultants and NGOs. http://www.ciwem.org/events/events-outputs.aspx Blog: ‘Drill or Drop?’ have written a blog following the conference which is available here.
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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 […]
Details of how fisheries are managed in marine protected areas. MMO: To bring fisheries in line with other activities, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) announced on the 14 August 2012 a revised approach to managing fishing activities within European marine sites (EMS). This change in approach will promote sustainable fisheries while […]
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
MCCIP ‘The MCCIP website has recently been updated with new marine climate change news and events. Below is a brief summary of the new items that have been added. For more details on all of the items listed below, simply go to www.mccip.org.uk and go to the relevant links in the ‘news and events’ box […]
Gordon Hastie, SMRU: Noise from pile driving during offshore wind turbine construction could be damaging the hearing of harbour seals around the UK, researchers have found. They say more research is needed on how noise affects marine mammals’ hearing and into engineering solutions to reduce noise levels. The study is published today in the British […]
Coming on the heels of an announced £83 million cut in 2015-16 (almost 4 per cent) taken off its £2.1 billion budget Chancellor George Osborne has announced the spending review where he is asking unprotected departments like Defra for savings of between 25-40% over the Parliament; the plans will be announced in November. Whilst DECC […]