The waters off the coast of Berwickshire, in the southeast of Scotland, are some of the most biodiverse and productive in the UK.
BigMarineData
Big Marine Data
The Big Marine Data project aims to address the current lack of collated and integrated data to effectively inform safety and risk at the coast and in inshore waters.
Blackwater
Blackwater
Blue Marine is supporting the restoration of native oysters in Essex. The native oyster has declined in the UK by over 95% in the last century and the reefs they form are one of the most threatened marine habitats in Europe.
IsleofArran
Isle of Arran
The Lamlash Bay no-take zone on the Isle of Arran is one of only a handful of marine protected areas in the British Isles where all forms of fishing are banned.
Jersey
Jersey
Jersey’s waters, with its seagrass, kelp forests and maerl beds, showcase some of the best shallow marine habitats in the British Isles.
LymeBay
Lyme Bay
In Lyme Bay, Blue Marine has developed a win-win model that benefits both the marine environment and small-scale fishermen practicing low-impact, responsible fishing.
NorthDevon
North Devon
The North Devon UNESCO Biosphere is home to extraordinary biodiversity.
OffshoreUKMarineProtectedAreas
Offshore UK Marine Protected Areas
Currently only four of the UK’s 76 marine protected areas are protected from destructive bottom-trawling and dredging.
PlymouthSoundNationalMarinePark
Plymouth Marine Park
National parks are important to 90% of people in the UK but, despite being an island nation with an extraordinary 30,000 kilometres of coastline, we have no national parks in the sea.
Safeguardingat-riskfisheries
Safeguarding at-risk fisheries
The future of somelow-impact inshore fisheries is under threat. Non-quota stocks lack data, there is often little or no management of the larger offshore fleet targeting these fisheries, leading to uncontrolled over-fishing.
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