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.
• Marine Protected Area Network Management Grant Scheme: guidance
  How to apply for the Marine Protected Areas (MPA) Network Management Grant Scheme.
• Marine Protected Area Network Management Action: guidance
  Applications will be invited in a ‘call for actions’ window which will occur once a year.
• 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.

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

• 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.