15 Mar 2016
Valuable spin-off from the planning process helping to inform future developments MMO: ‘The aim of this project (Report MMO1077) is to combine future climate data from the UK climate projections 2009 with information on current and predicted marine activities in the South and East marine plan areas to identify potential climate change impacts and benefits.’
15 Mar 2016
MMO: The project aimed to use models of essential fish habitats, developed for an earlier project, and validate these with a number of stakeholders, in order to improve the confidence in the modelled outputs. Two reports setting out the development of Spatial Models of Essential Fish Habitat for the South Inshore and Offshore Marine Plan […]
02 Feb 2016
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is asking for views to decide how fisheries should be managed in marine protected areas. Site assessments include recommendations for managing fisheries in MPAs. The MMO have today published site summary assessments for nine marine protected area (MPA) sites in English inshore waters (0 to 12nm), and are asking fishermen […]
12 Oct 2015
MMO July 17th 2015 ‘To ensure it makes effective management decisions, the MMO must maintain a level of technical capability within its own staff alongside a clear strategic approach to ensuring any evidence needs are met both now and in the future. This document sets out Part 1 of the MMO’s Evidence Strategy for 2015 […]
30 Jul 2015
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 […]
27 Jul 2015
MMO (17.07.15): This report sets out the MMO’s priorities for evidence from 2015 – 2020. To read more go to: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/evidence-strategy-for-the-marine-management-organisation-mmo MMO ‘To ensure it makes effective management decisions, the MMO must maintain a level of technical capability within its own staff alongside a clear strategic approach to ensuring any evidence needs are met both […]
15 Jun 2015
This series covers birds, cetaceans, seals, marine turtles, fish including seahorses, sharks and skates, invertebrates and prohibited hunting methods https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/protected-marine-species Many marine species are protected by EU and UK wildlife legislation from intentional or deliberate disturbance, taking, harm and killing, and in some cases possession or sale. The offences that apply will depend on the […]
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