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The MMO and climate change

Posted by: Tom McCormack, MMO Chief Executive, Posted on: 22 October 2021 - Categories: Blue Belt, fisheries, marine conservation, marine licensing, marine planning
planning

Climate change is bad news for everyone, from the prospect of fewer and smaller fish in the sea to the communities that will be affected by coastal erosion and flooding. I don’t think there has ever been such awareness of …

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External decision making and implementation mapping of marine plans

Posted by: Amy Wardlaw, MMO, Posted on: 6 February 2019 - Categories: marine planning
Stretch of coastline under blue sky.

...and delivering catchment flood management plans. The research also identifies where marine plan use may be relevant to advisory bodies and functions. Most decisions fall into seven general decision-making processes:...

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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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Marine planning milestone for the south coast of England

Posted by: Amy Wardlaw, MMO, Posted on: 17 July 2018 - Categories: marine planning
south marine plan area

A new Government framework has been launched for the South coast which will inform decision-making on what activities take place in the marine environment. It will guide where and how this is developed, protected and improved in future.

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Marine planning engagement - Iteration 2 update

Posted by: Amy Wardlaw, MMO, Posted on: 10 May 2018 - Categories: marine planning
marine planning team

Update on marine planning engagement during the first quarter of 2018 during which we met 350 stakeholders face to face and received survey responses from over 1000.

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

Posted by: Amy Wardlaw, MMO, Posted on: 3 April 2018 - Categories: MMO corporate
Marine Management Organisation news March 2018

...video on social media reminding people that our consultation on these products closed on 29 March. Blue Belt Dr Emily Hardman, Integrated Marine Management Manager for the Blue Belt programme,...

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Marine planning - your say on the future of England’s seas

Posted by: Amy Wardlaw, MMO, Posted on: 5 March 2018 - Categories: marine planning
marine planning team at workshop

We're halfway through our iteration 2 consultation workshops for Marine Planning. Find out what happened in the North West and South East and what is still to come for the South West and North East.

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

Posted by: Amy Wardlaw, MMO, Posted on: 28 February 2018 - Categories: MMO corporate
February 2018 updates MMO

...bass in 2018, for both recreational and commercial fishermen. Commercial fishing for bass in any restricted area is prohibited during February and March 2018. We answered some more common questions...

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

Posted by: Amy Wardlaw, MMO, Posted on: 30 January 2018 - Categories: MMO corporate
MMO news round up January 2018

This month saw good news for one of our Board Members and we also welcomed a new recruit. Representatives for the Blue Belt programme visited UK Overseas Territories and the...

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Marine planning engagement

Posted by: Jessica Churchill-Bissett (MMO), Posted on: 13 July 2017 - Categories: marine planning

...Marine Management Organisation (MMO) marine planning team tells us about the spring engagement that took place in our remaining Marine Plan areas. Time to talk The spring workshops were very...

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