30 Dec 2024
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is celebrating the support it has provided to UK’s fishing and seafood industry in 2024 through various administered grant schemes. In 2024 the MMO delivered £30m in funding to support 535 projects nationwide. This grant support has been delivered to industry thanks to a collaboration of teams across the MMO, […]
24 Dec 2024
Projects based in Yorkshire, Outer Hebrides and Merseyside have received a share of £2.4 million from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), part of UK Research and Innovation. The studies are the first NERC research projects to be co-led by local community members and scientists from beginning to end. Reducing coastal erosion A project led […]
24 Dec 2024
Innovation, research and a mammoth volunteering effort helped conservationists learn more about wildlife in UK seas, reveals The Wildlife Trusts’ 2024 Marine Review. Every year The Wildlife Trusts’ Living Seas teams compile a Marine Review that explores the wildlife in UK seas. The Review reflects on work to protect and restore UK seas by staff, […]
22 Dec 2024
UK and Scottish Ministers have presented reports to the two Parliaments setting out progress and information on the Marine Protected Area network for Scotland, and English waters (inshore and offshore) and Northern Ireland offshore waters. This is a requirement under the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010 and Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (MCAA). Key facts […]
22 Dec 2024
EU countries have updated their goals for the deployment of offshore renewable energy up to 2050 in each of the EU’s 5 sea basins, with intermediate objectives to be achieved by 2030 and 2040. At an online meeting of the Directors-General of the Ministries of Energy in the respective countries today, non-binding agreements were reached […]
22 Dec 2024
New research published in Science Advances reveals that right whales can survive for more than 130 years — almost twice as long as previously understood. This made them the second-longest lived mammals on Earth, after bowhead whales which could live beyond two centuries. The study examined four decades of data collected by photo identification programs tracking individual […]
20 Dec 2024
We are excited to announce the shortlisted nominees for this year’s OCF Bob Earll Award for ‘Early career impact on ocean and coastal management’. We received numerous high-calibre nominations which have been whittled down to a shortlist of six early-career award finalists: Athena Allen; Danielle Clifford; Ffion Mitchell-Langford; Daniel Morris; Hannah Rudd; and Konstancja Wozniacka. […]
17 Dec 2024
The Environment Agency has published new data showing 6.3 million properties across England are based in areas at risk of flooding from one or a combination of rivers, the sea and surface water. Using the best available data from both the Environment Agency and local authorities, the new National Assessment of Flood Risk (NaFRA), provides a […]
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