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Protecting our marine environment - MPA consultation

Protecting our marine environment - MPA consultation

On 9 June 2025, we launched our consultation on proposed fisheries management measures for Stage 3 marine protected areas (MPAs). In England, we're fortunate to have a diverse array of marine habitats in our seas. These habitats serve as refuges …

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Statistics show where UK vessels fish and what is landed from our waters

Posted by: James Pilkington and Amy Wardlaw, MMO, Posted on: 27 September 2018 - Categories: Statistics
Torquay devon fishing

...of the seven other EU Member States' waters that the UK landed fish from the most valuable for the UK fleet were (avg. 2012 – 2016): Ireland (65,000 tonnes, £66...

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10 updates you might have missed from the Marine Management Organisation in August 2018

Posted by: Amy Wardlaw, MMO, Posted on: 11 September 2018 - Categories: MMO corporate
MMO updates August 2018

...was ordered to pay over £22,000 for offences relating to pollock. involving illegally caught bass and an East Sussex fisherman received a fine of £4,699 plus £3,200 costs for illegal...

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Delivering Blue Belt on Pitcairn Island

Posted by: Dr Emily Hardman (Blue Belt, MMO), Posted on: 5 September 2018 - Categories: Blue Belt, marine conservation, marine licensing, MMO corporate
Dr Emily Hardman standing at the front of a classroom as three children look on.

Integrated Marine Management Manager, Dr Emily Hardman, provides us with an insight into one of the smallest populated UK Overseas Territories, Pitcairn Island.

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Help clean up our beaches with the #binit4beaches campaign

Posted by: Alex Smith, MMO, Posted on: 23 August 2018 - Categories: Coastal, marine conservation

The National Bathing Waters Campaign is calling on us all to combat the level of litter in coastal areas and bathing waters.

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Blue Belt - Ascension Island Update

Posted by: Jake Turnbull, MMO, Posted on: 16 August 2018 - Categories: Blue Belt
English Bay, Ascension Island

Here is the latest update on the work that the Blue Belt Programme are undertaking with our partners on Ascension Island. 

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Welcoming the suffrage flag to North East England

Posted by: Amy Wardlaw, MMO, Posted on: 15 August 2018 - Categories: MMO corporate
suffrage flag relay MMO Newcastle

...a significant location in the history of the suffragette movement as it is where Emily Wilding Davison was buried – Davison died after being trampled on by the King’s horse...

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10 updates you might have missed from the Marine Management Organisation in July 2018

Posted by: Amy Wardlaw, MMO, Posted on: 3 August 2018 - Categories: MMO corporate
July blog round up news MMO

...to promote guidance on marine wildlife watching. Some of our marine officers spotted a pod of dolphins while patrolling the Lyme Bay area with Devon and Severn IFCA. Seals and...

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A coastal adventure with The Snail and the Whale

Posted by: Gareth Hern, MMO, Posted on: 1 August 2018 - Categories: children, kids

This summer sees the launch of a unique partnership between the Marine Management Organisation (MMO), Natural England and Macmillan Children’s Books.

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Volunteering to clean Devon beaches

Posted by: Jessica Churchill-Bissett (MMO) and Amy Wardlaw, MMO, Posted on: 30 July 2018 - Categories: Coastal, marine conservation
Torbay Cleaner Coasts Initiative Jessica

...the marine environment (some of which had obviously had been there a while). After carrying all the marine litter back to Broadsands we sorted the litter for recycling. We ended...

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Blue Belt: research, monitoring and education in St Helena

Posted by: Jake Turnbull, Communications advisor (MMO) and Amy Wardlaw, MMO, Posted on: 23 July 2018 - Categories: Blue Belt
marine conservation Lee-ann

...into in the wider Atlantic tuna management from ICCAT. Together with my colleagues, I also undertake annual underwater habitat and abundance surveys, monitoring both fish and invertebrates at specific sites...

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