Marine Conservation Zone A Marine Conservation Zone is a type of marine nature reserve in UK waters. They were established under the Marine and Coastal Access Act and are areas designated with the aim to protect nationally important, rare or threatened habitats and species. Approximately 20% of UK waters now have some protection although some conservation, fisherman and wildlife groups are concerned that there are no management plans for each zone. Following Brexit, legislation creating the powers for the UK to operate as an independent coastal state and manage its fish stocks sustainably outside the EU was introduced into Parliament in January 2020. This would give new powers to the Marine Management Organisation in English waters.No Take Zones MCZs generally do not provide "no-take" protection banning fishing. However,Lundy Island MCZ includes a preexisting "no-take zone", which was established in 2003. Two more no-take zones have been established in UK waters : There has been criticism of the MCZs for not providing "no-take" protection for a higher proportion of UK waters; for example, the environmentalist George Monbiot has raised the issue in his column in The Guardian .England On 21 November 2013 the first twenty-seven Marine Conservation Zones were designated, followed by a further twenty-three on 17 January 2016. There are now fifty MCZs in English seas protecting an area of.2013 Marine Conservation Zones Aln Estuary Beachy Head West Blackwater, Crouch, Roach and Colne Estuaries The Canyons Chesil Beach and Stennis Ledges Cumbria Coast East of Haig Fras Folkestone Pomerania Fylde Isles of Scilly Kingmere Lundy The Manacles Medway Estuary North East of Farnes Deep Padstow Bay and Surrounds Pagham Harbour Poole Rocks Skerries Bank and Surrounds South Dorset South-West Deeps Swallow Sand Tamar Estuary Thanet Coast Torbay Upper Fowey and Pont Pill Whitsand and Looe Bay2016 Marine Conservation Zones Allonby Bay Bideford to Foreland Bay Coquet to St Mary's Cromer Shoal Chalk Beds Dover to Deal Dover to Folkestone Farnes East Fulmar Greater Haig Fras Hartland Point to Tintagel Holderness Inshore North-west of Jones Bank Land's End Mount's Bay The Needles Newquay and The Gannel Offshore Brighton Offshore Overfalls Runswick Bay Swale Estuary Utopia Western Channel West of Walney co-location zone Northern Ireland Following the passing of the Marine Act 2013 only Strangford Lough was designated as a Marine Conservation Zone. In 2015 consultations for a further four proposed MCZs were announced. The consultations ended in March 2016 and the four MCZs were designated in December 2016 .Proposed Marine Conservation Zones Carlingford Outer Belfast Lough Rathlin WaterfootScotland In the summer of 2014 the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Food and the Environment announced thirty new Marine Protected Areas . Along with thirty Special Areas of Conservation , forty-seven Special Protection Areas and sixty-one Sites of Special Scientific Interest , 20% of Scottish waters have differing levels of protection.There are seventeen protected areas within Scotland's territorial waters Clyde Sea Sill East Caithness Cliffs Fetlar to Haroldswick Loch Creran Loch Sunart Loch Sunart to the Sound of Jura Loch Sween Lochs Duich , Long and Alsh Monarch Isles Mousa to Boddam Noss Head Papa Westray Small Isles South Arran Upper Loch Fyne and Loch Goil Wester Ross Wyre and Rousay Sounds A further thirteen protected areas are outside Scottish territorial waters Central Fladen East of Gannet and Montrose Fields Faroe-Shetland Sponge Belt Firth of Forth Banks Complex Geikie Slide and Hebridean Slope Hatton-Rockall Basin North-east Faroe-Shetland Channel North-west Orkney Norwegian Boundary Sediment Plain Rosemary Bank Seamount Barra Fan and Hebrides Terrace Seamount Turbot Bank West Shetland ShelfWales is the only site in Wales designated as a Marine Conservation Zone. There are 128 marine protected areas in Welsh seas and Natural Resources Wales is consulting with the Welsh Government and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee to consider if anymore areas need protecting.External Links
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