15 Sep 2026
Photo by Mapping what Matters Active and retired skippers and crew across England are being invited to take part in Mapping What Matters, a Defra-led project capturing the cultural and social importance of fishing grounds. Following pilot sessions earlier this year, the project’s national rollout begins with a series of drop-in sessions across the East […]
30 Nov 2021
ABPmer White Paper – Colin Scott: ‘Blue Carbon in Managed Realignments What do we know about the ‘Blue Carbon’ value of managed realignment projects, and what do we find when we compare 10 very different UK case examples? For more than two decades, there has been growing recognition about the role that coastal habitats (especially […]
25 Aug 2021
Biodiversity 3.0 metric launched in new sustainable development toolkit Natural England unveils the Biodiversity Metric 3.0 to help developments achieve biodiversity net gain and give back to nature. Natural England (NE) has launched three new tools to help developers measure biodiversity net gain and ensure new developments are “nature positive”. Where a development has an […]
09 Jan 2021
Following the end of the Brexit transition period, our latest White Paper explores what the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement has to say on fisheries. At the eleventh hour, the EU and UK agreed a deal to govern relations between the two parties when the Brexit transition period ended on 31 December 2020. Throughout the […]
15 Dec 2020
Steve Hull, ABPmer ‘Our latest White Paper explores key strategic issues that still need addressing if we are to successfully implement marine net gain‘ ‘Net gain’ aims to leave the environment in a better state following development and to secure wider benefits for people and the environment. While progress has been made with developing an […]
21 Apr 2020
Solent Forum Beneficial Reuse project There has been a strong desire amongst Solent Forum members to find solutions to the many barriers which are preventing the effective use of dredged material to augment Solent intertidal sites and, hence, to provide other benefits associated with such restoration work (especially enhanced coastal protection). The Forum’s role will […]
28 Jan 2020
Steve Hull, ABPmer: ‘Offshore wind expansion in UK waters is facing constraints by the EU Birds & Habitats Directives, which set acceptability standards for impacts to Special Protection Areas and Special Areas of Conservation, particularly in relation to potential impacts to seabirds. Statutory Nature Conservation Bodies are now advising that, based on current scientific understanding […]
23 Nov 2019
The results of a project undertaken by marine consultancy ABPmer, to develop a method to assign values to shipping cargo has been published by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO). The resulting mapping and information will improve the evidence base used in developing marine plan policies. Monty Smedley, maritime sector lead at ABPmer said “This was […]
