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Fishing vessel master and owner ordered to pay £12,008 in fines and costs by Newcastle Magistrates’ Court
A fishing vessel skipper was ordered to pay fines and costs for fisheries offences relating to the use of an illegal net and obstruction.
A wide-ranging report on the features and activities around the South coast of England and further out to sea has been published.
James Cross is to leave his post at the end of August after being appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Natural England.
A public meeting of the MMO Board is taking place on 24 June 2014.
The first ever plans for the future of the seas around England have been published.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Sampling and sediment analysis to support a marine licence application will need to be carried out before an application is submitted.
A revised charging structure for marine licences will be in place from 6 April 2014.
27 new Marine Conservation Zones have been created to help better protect our rich marine life. These will join over 500 marine protected areas that already exist in the UK.
Richard Benyon has responded to an article in the Times by stressing that we cannot designate all proposed 127 Marine Conservation Zones without the evidence we need.
The Government is pressing ahead with its plans to create Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) to protect the UK’s rich marine environment, Natural…
Greater Manchester can put itself on the map as a low carbon metropolis, Environment Minister Lord de Mauley said today ahead of his visit to…
Over 330 square km of marine habitat off the coast of Dorset will be given greater protection, Natural Environment Minister Richard Benyon announced today.
The Dogger Bank is in the middle of the North Sea and crosses the offshore waters of the UK, the Netherlands and Germany.
Shared UK vision for clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse oceans and seas.
Defra officials had already concluded that the Marine Policy Statement complied with the Equalities Act 2010.
The Government has today proposed a new way of managing our seas.
The most authoritative assessment ever on the state of the UK seas has been published today.
Richard Benyon speech – Charting Progress 2 launch.
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