Fifteen new areas to give protection to UK seas

[tom00_uk]

Fifteen new areas to give protection to UK seas | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fifteen new Marine Protected Areas were created today, designed to protect important habitats and species.

The UK Government has submitted the sites to the European Commission to be included within the European ‘Natura 2000’ network of protected areas.

The new candidate Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) are:
Inner Dowsing, Race Bank and North Ridge
North Norfolk Sandbanks and Saturn Reef
Haisborough, Hammond and Winterton
Margate and Long Sands
Bassurelle Sandbank
Lyme Bay and Torbay
Prawle Point to Plymouth Sound and Eddystone
Lizard Point
Land’s End and Cape Bank
Shell Flat
Red Bay
North-West Rockall Bank
Wyville Thomson Ridge

The new Special Protection Areas (for birds) are:
Outer Thames Estuary
Liverpool Bay/Bae Lerpwl (agreed with the Welsh Assembly Government)

The two possible SACs subject to another consultation by Natural England are:
Lune Deep
Prawle Point to Start Point

The possible SAC being consulted upon by JNCC is:
Dogger Bank

[Littlesparrow]

Sounds good to me.

[TALLYHO]

Its always good to see increased protection for our marine enviroment.

It would be nice if the powers that be finally recognise the damage that the Salmon farming industry is doing to wild Salmon stocks and place a ban on offshore Salmon farming.

How many river systems have to lose their indigenous Salmon and Sea trout to the parasites from these farms before common sense prevails ?