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Consultation on Delivering Marine Conservation Zones and European Marine Sites: A draft strategy for marine protected areas

This draft strategy sets out our proposed vision and framework for marine protected areas in territorial waters adjacent to England and UK offshore waters over the next ten years. It will allow anyone with an interest in marine conservation to understand why we are creating an MPA network and how we intend to deliver it.

The draft strategy sets out how existing obligations for marine protected areas under European Directives together with Marine Conservation Zones under the Marine and Coastal Access Bill and other designated sites will deliver an ecologically coherent network by 2012.

You are invited to comment by 13 July 2009.

Page last modified: 19 October 2009
Page published: 20 April 2009