Species protection and marine conservation

Guidance and regulation

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
- Detailed guide
- 13 March 2023
- Marine Management Organisation
Seagrass protection and recovery
- Guidance
- 24 November 2025
- Marine Management Organisation
The Blue Belt Programme
- Detailed guide
- 22 July 2025
- Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Marine Management Organisation, and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Moorings, consents and advice
- Detailed guide
- 26 February 2025
- Marine Management Organisation
Species Recovery Programme: call for ideas funding opportunity
- Detailed guide
- 3 November 2025
- Natural England

Assessment of king scallop stock status - English coast 2023/24
- 21 May 2025
- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
- Research
Designing and implementation of a developmental evaluation of marine conservation management measures {MMO1289}
- 21 January 2025
- Marine Management Organisation
- Research
Assessment of king scallop stock status around the English coast
- 16 April 2024
- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
- Research
Managing Fishing in Marine Protected Areas: Consultations
- 17 March 2023
- Marine Management Organisation
- Research
Joint agency investigation into Teesside and Yorkshire Coast Crab and Lobster mortalities
- 15 November 2022
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Environment Agency, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, and Marine Management Organisation
- Research

Consultation on the principles of marine net gain
- 9 December 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 13 September 2022
Fisheries: managing flyseine vessel pressure on demersal non-quota fish stocks
- 17 July 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 16 November 2022
Stage 3 MPAs Call for evidence
- 10 June 2025
- Marine Management Organisation
- Policy paper
Stage 3 Consultation Document
- 9 June 2025
- Marine Management Organisation
- Policy paper
Highly Protected Marine Areas: policy information
- 25 May 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper