The European Union and the United Kingdom have rolled out tighter technical fishing regulations across the Celtic Sea, Irish Sea, and parts of the English Channel. Stemming from the December 2025 Fisheries Council agreement, the joint measures are designed to rebuild depleted stocks of cod, haddock, whiting, sole, and plaice by improving catch selectivity and […]
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) have launched Your Coast – Explore, Enjoy, Protect, a new external campaign encouraging coastal communities to play a role in shaping the management of recreational activities in England’s MPAs. This campaign begins with a special appeal for people to submit photographs and images of seabed habitats and protected wildlife. […]
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is inviting people to contribute to a new call for evidence on the impacts of marine recreational activities and anchoring within England’s marine protected areas (MPAs). This call for evidence supports MMO’s marine non-licensable activities (mNLA) assessment. MMO is assessing the impacts of marine recreational activities and anchoring within […]
Closes 11 September 2026 The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has aunched the latest monitoring survey for all marine plan areas in England, providing an opportunity for stakeholders to feedback on marine plan application and effectiveness. If you are a decision-maker, or have experience of using marine plans or even just an interest in them they […]
MMO Marine Plan Implementation Training Sessions The Marine Planning Team at the Marine Management Organisation are holding a series of marine plan implementation training sessions. These sessions have been designed to provide marine planning training and guidance to support applicants, decision-makers, and other stakeholders to effectively implement the marine plans across all areas and sectors in […]
Closing date 31 January 2025 The Marine Management Organisation is inviting stakeholders to take part in an online survey to help inform two Fisheries Management Plans (FMP) being developed for English waters. The survey covers: Wrasses complex FMP– which includes ballan wrasse, corkwing wrasse, cuckoo wrasse, goldsinny wrasse and rock cook wrasse. Black seabream FMP – which […]
Closed – Closing date 31st January 2022 The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has several current and upcoming general member vacancies in the ten regional Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authorities across England. They are seeking to appoint to fill current vacancies and to create a reserve list for upcoming vacancies. These are voluntary roles which require […]
The UK Government has, today (23rd June) formally adopted the marine plans for the North West, North East, South West and South East of England. The marine plans have been produced by the Marine Management Organisation on behalf of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Accompanying each of the […]
Closed 15th December 2020 The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is asking stakeholders in the north west of England to take part in the annual monitoring survey to gather baseline information on the draft North West Marine Plan. This is the first time the MMO has run the survey in the north west and they will […]
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has published the ‘Draft North East, North West, South East and South West Marine Plans: Consultation Summary 2020’ . The summary outlines the key findings from the recent consultation on the inshore and offshore marine plans for the 4 remaining marine plan areas. Once the plans are finalised in light […]