Marine conservation and biodiversity

Guidance and services

• UK Marine Strategy
  Outlines how we plan to achieve and maintain Good Environment Status (GES) in our seas.
• Marine Online Assessment Tool
  Marine Online Assessment Tool (MOAT) provides the data to assess progress towards Good Environmental Status (GES).
• OSPAR
  A group of countries working together to prevent marine pollution.
• Invasive aquatic species: priority marine species
  Categorises species as high, medium or low risk and explains their impact.
• Special areas of conservation
  Natural habitats, which support important plant and animal species.
• Special protection areas
  Sites used by rare and vulnerable birds, and regularly occurring migratory species.
• Marine Protected Areas
  Our seas contain some of the most diverse wildlife and habitats in Europe.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Review of aggregate dredging off the coast
  Report
  A report examining the effect of dredging on the coastline.
• Interim marine aggregates dredging policy
  Policy and strategy
  How we will manage marine aggregates dredging, moving it offshore to areas west of the Bristol Channel.
• Diseases of Fish (Designated Area) (Wales) Order 2006 (2006 No. 40)
  Legislation
  In this Order the inland waters and land within the area referred to in the Schedule to the Order are designated for the purposes of section 2 of the Diseases of Fish Act 1937. This Order prohibits the moving of any live fish or live fish eggs into or out of the designated area without the previous consent in writing of the National Assembly for Wales.
• Marine Protected Areas
  Collection
  Marine Protected Areas protect our ecosystems, cultural and archaeological sites, and our fisheries.