Formal Consultation – MMO management of fishing activity impacts in marine protected areas – Stage 3

This section is for general responses in relation to sites that fall within the North Sea. 

If you have responses for specific MPAs in the North Sea please place these in their respective site sections.

Alternatively, if your comments are overarching, for the consultation as a whole, please place these in the ‘General comments’ section.  

The relevant documents can be viewed and downloaded below in the 'Related Information' section.

As detailed on the overview page, we have provided guidance questions which may help with structuring your response:

1. Do you have any additional information about the location, condition, or sensitivity of the designated features?
2. Do you have information on the type, location, frequency, or intensity of fishing activity within the MPAs?
3. Do you agree or disagree with the proposed management measures? Do you have any suggestions for other management measures?
4. How would the proposed management measures affect you? Or those you represent?
5. What impacts, if any, do you anticipate the proposed management measures will have on UK fishing vessels, operators, or supply chains?
6. What impacts, if any, do you anticipate the proposed management measures will have on non-UK fishing vessels, operators, or supply chains (including those from the EU)?

7. What other impacts could the proposed management measures have? For example, on fishers, the wider fishing community, coastal communities, employment, upstream and downstream supply chains, people with protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010, fish stocks, the marine environment.