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Updates from the MMO Marine Planning team (Summer 2024).
This guidance can be used to assist your completion of a standard marine licence application within the MMO’s Marine Case Management System MCMS.
Documents to provide on application for a Harbour Revision Order (HRO) (non-works)
All references to Area VII are to Area VII within British Fishery Limits only. Details of the approach to managing the over 15 metre Area VII crab and scallop fishing sector to keep the fishery within UK effort limits.
Details of the efficacy and toxicity tests oil spill treatment products must have before being approved for use in UK waters.
Since July 2008 dredging for shellfish and demersal trawling has been prohibited in a designated 60 square mile area of Lyme Bay.
Guidance for laboratories on physical and chemical determinands for sediment sampling to support marine licence applications.
In order to continue to export fisheries products to the United States (US), and to assist conservation efforts in mitigating marine mammal bycatch, the UK needs to comply with international standards for the conservation of…
Draft fishing gear impacts evidence documents for stage 4 marine protected areas (MPAs). Stage 4 covers impacts of fishing on MPAs with highly mobile species features, including harbour porpoises and marine bird species.
A project to create a methodology for stakeholders to consider Seascapes quality, value and capacity to accommodate change
The Canyons MCZ is located in the far south-west corner of the UK continental shelf.
Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is encouraging stakeholders to share their views on wrasses and black seabream in English waters.
Contact details for all enquiries relating to marine licences
Learn about how the UK Managing Authority (UKMA) manage the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF).
Information to support commercial fishers on under 12 metre English vessels.
Advice and guidance on the catch, landing and sale of common sturgeon.
Quota Application Mechanism Pilot 2024
The region covers Dungeness to Swanage.
This guidance outlines the circumstances under which a marine licence may be required from the Marine Management Organisation.
The Southern North Sea and English Channel Skates and Rays Fisheries Management Plan covers ICES divisions 7d, 7e, 4b and 4c and includes species Thornback ray, Blonde ray, Undulate ray, Small-eyed ray, Spotted ray, Cuckoo r…
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