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  • Marine Management Organisation guidance on the environmental benefits of advanced mooring systems over traditional moorings, as well as the consent and marine licencing process.

  • Information on the UK's implementation of Data Collection Framework legislation (as amended in retained EU law)

  • Information about the Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) designation at Holderness Inshore, in the East of England.

  • Support for marine users to minimise environmental impacts from unexploded ordnance clearance in the marine environment.

  • Information about the Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) designation at Studland Bay, in the South West of England.

  • The plan summarises procedures the Marine Management Organisation follows in a marine pollution incident.

  • A document outlining standards to be met by organisations delivering Tier 2 response services in the UK.

  • The 12-stage process on how a marine plan is made from selection to implementation and monitoring and how you can get involved.

  • Map showing the East Inshore and East Offshore marine plan areas.

  • Information about the Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) designation at Offshore Brighton, in the South East of England.

  • Find out the measures the UK and EC are taking to reduce fishing industry threats to marine life, such as overfishing, finning, and bycatch

  • Information about the available funding from the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) scheme

  • How different types of fishing gear must be marked, what you must do if you lose your fishing gear, how to report lost fishing gear.

  • Since July 2008 dredging for shellfish and demersal trawling has been prohibited in a designated 60 square mile area of Lyme Bay.

  • This inshore marine conservation zone (MCZ) was designated on 21 November 2013. One additional feature was added to this site on 31 May 2019

  • Information about the Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) designation at Ribble Estuary, in the North West of England.

  • Information about generating energy offshore

  • Laying telecommunications and power cables within UK territorial waters (up to 12 nautical miles) requires a marine licence.

  • Only farmed salmon and sea trout, and wild fish caught in legal net and trap fisheries, can be legally bought and sold in England.

  • The strategy sets out the Marine Management Organisation's overall approach to achieving compliance.