Tag: MPAs
Environmentalists welcome Dogger Bank trawling ban. Environment groups have welcomed that trawling and dredging will be banned from 14,030 sq. kilometres of UK waters, an area equivalent to the size of Northern Ireland. The Marine ...
Major Blow to Fishing in MPAs – In a shocking development, the Marine Management Organisation has announced that it intends to ban all forms of towed bottom gears in the Dogger Bank SAC and the ...
MMO launches consultation on MPAs. Marine Management Organisation launches consultation on four of England’s Marine Protected Areas. The next phase in the Government’s ambitious plans for a ‘Blue Belt’ of marine protected areas around the ...
Marine Protected Areas Explained by the MMO – The management of our coastal waters plays an important role in protecting and conserving our marine ecosystems. The Marine Conservation Team at the MMO are responsible for ...
MMO consults on more protection for English seas. The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has launched a call for evidence, seeking views on proposals to better safeguard marine habitats. The call for evidence is specifically looking at ...
Emerging themes to support UK marine biodiversity conservation. Robert Clarke of the Institutes Estuarine and Marine Specialist Section recently contributed to a paper on future MPA policy in the UK. The abstract from the paper ...
PFA calls for Greenpeace collaboration following ‘misleading’ report. As the Fisheries Bill moves through the UK Parliament, the Pelagic Freezer-trawler Association (PFA) has published an open letter calling for a collaboration with Greenpeace UK, urging ...
Report underlines importance of MPAs. Earlier this month, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) of the UK released their report ‘Developing the evidence-base to support climate-smart decision-making on MPAs’ on the finding of the Defra-funded Climate-smart ...
Climate change impacting upon understanding of MPAs. Climate change and warming seas are transforming tropical coral reefs and undoing decades of knowledge about how to protect these delicate and vital ecosystems. Many of the world’s ...
Expansion of Pacific MPAs did not harm tuna fleet. Expansion of the Pacific Remote Islands and Papahānaumokuākea marine national monuments (marine protected areas) did not cause economic harm to the Hawaiʻi-based longline tuna fishing fleet, according ...
Areas of Med need protected to avoid turtle bycatch. Loggerhead turtles feed in the same places year after year – meaning key locations in the Mediterranean should be protected, researchers say. University of Exeter scientists used ...
Marine Protected Areas must be mobile. World leaders are currently updating the laws for international waters that apply to most of the world’s ocean environment. This provides a unique opportunity, marine scientists argued last week, ...
New rules will benefit fishermen and ecosystems. New rules by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have gone into effect on Jan. 1 to increase protections to deep-sea ecosystems by creating one of the largest ...
MPAs in the Med benefit fish stocks. Marine protected areas in the Mediterranean Sea are home to more fish species, with the greatest gains found among species most sensitive to exploitation, according to new research. ...
Government failing on marine commitments for Mediterranean. A new WWF report shows that Mediterranean countries are failing on their global commitment to protect at least 10% of marine and coastal areas, and to stop ongoing ...
Sharks scarcer near large human populations. A team of researchers, led by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), has discovered that sharks are much rarer in habitats nearer large human populations and fish markets. The team ...
Canada surpasses marine conservation targets. Canada has announced that it has surpassed its marine conservation target of 10 percent protection of marine and coastal areas. This significant achievement was reached through considerable collaborative efforts with ...
Commercial fishing overlaps threatened shark hotspots worldwide. A ground-breaking study led by Marine Biological Association (MBA) scientists and published in the journal Nature reports that large sharks – some of which are already endangered globally ...
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