18 Jun 2019
Catch recording for under 10m fishing vessels starts this summer – key changes made in response to consultation. Changes to the planned introduction of catch recording for all English and Welsh under 10 metre fishing boats have been made following a public consultation. MMO ‘A report on the consultation, which closed in April, was published […]
06 May 2019
The latest MMO Marine Planning Newsletter has been produced and includes: Progress on the emerging regional plans The Marine Planning team has just completed a period of engagement with stakeholders on our emerging marine plan policies. These policies form part of our Iteration 3 outputs of the process to develop the North West, North East, […]
16 Apr 2019
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is currently going through the process of marine planning for English marine waters. During consultations, stakeholders expressed a desire for a national dataset to be developed to identify sites suitable for coastal and marine habitat creation or restoration. ABPmer were commissioned to help develop such a dataset and identify which […]
12 Mar 2019
Evidence strategy for the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) MMO ‘Strategy setting our priorities for evidence that will ensure our delivery is underpinned with excellent science delivered in the most efficient way. To ensure it makes effective management decisions, the MMO must maintain a level of technical capability within its own staff alongside a clear strategic […]
05 Mar 2019
Preparing for a grim reality – the Defra website is bursting with technical briefings on everything from fisheries to chemicals, two sets of guidance on fisheries and importing and exporting fish. Ditto the MMO website The fisheries sector and preparing for EU Exit If the UK leaves the EU on 29 March without a deal, […]
24 Feb 2019
New technologies have the potential to represent, and indeed define, the lasting legacy of the Blue Belt Programme. If implemented effectively, with sufficient consideration given as to their application in the context of the fisheries enforcement issues the Overseas Territories seek to address, then new technologies could represent a real ‘game-changer’. On 16 January 2019, […]
18 Feb 2019
MMO Update on fishing for sea bass in 2019 ‘Revised rules relating to fishing for sea bass apply from midnight 31 January 2019. Published 31 January 2019: Following the publication of the 2019 Total Allowable Catch Regulation in the official journal of the European Union, the revised rules relating to fishing for sea bass now apply. Commercial […]
12 Feb 2019
External decision making and implementation mapping of marine plans – MMO Evidence report 1155 The MMO has published a new research report looking at how and where marine plans are being used in decision-making by public bodies. The report “External decision making and implementation mapping of marine plans” identified a total of 29 government bodies, […]
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