Balanced Seas South East recommendations

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The final recommendations overview from Balanced Seas are as shown in the links below.
The full report is a bit weighty, but interesting reading none the less.




Balanced Seas has produced a summary of the Final Recommendations for Marine Conservation Zones for south-east England. The recommendations, developed by the Balanced Seas Regional Stakeholder Group, were submitted to Natural England and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee at the beginning of September.

The 36 page summary brochure can be downloaded from the bottom right of our homepage at www.balancedseas.org. It is not intended as a replacement to the full report but provides an overview with seven maps showing details of the recommended sites along with a description of why each area is of particular interest and with some helpful background information explaining the project process and the next steps. Hard copies will be available on request for a limited time by emailing balancedseas@kent.ac.uk. The full report and detailed descriptions of each recommended site can be found in the RSG Resources section of the Balanced Seas website.

The final Balanced Seas newsletter will be distributed at the beginning of October. After that, if you wish to continue to be informed about the Marine Conservation Zone process in the run up to the public consultation next year, please sign up to receive the national newsletter at http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-2409. You can also email mczproject@jncc.gov.uk or visit the websites of Defra, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee and Natural England.

Stakeholders can view the recommended sites from all four regional MCZ projects with the Marine Conservation Zone interactive map by visiting www.mczmapping.org. Users of this online tool can zoom in to particular areas of interest and different layers can be turned on and off showing where the species and habitats of conservation importance are recorded.
 
Thanks for posting this up, Jim.
I had a quick look through it all a couple of weeks ago. I was a tad concerned that, unless I missed it, the report makes no recommendations as to what should happen in these proposed MCZs, e.g. no anchoring, loo discharge, or whatever. That presumably comes later.
I hear that the fishing industry is already up in arms over the proposed areas over this side (Swale, Medway, Thanet).
 
Cantata said:
Thanks for posting this up, Jim.
I had a quick look through it all a couple of weeks ago. I was a tad concerned that, unless I missed it, the report makes no recommendations as to what should happen in these proposed MCZs, e.g. no anchoring, loo discharge, or whatever. That presumably comes later.
(Swale, Medway, Thanet).
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I was also puzzelled by this , it effectively makes the Stour and Orwell MCZs but no real indication as to what exactly that means.

However I suspect what it means is that some lesser spotted budgie or sea slug will come before jobs. Just look at the farce Woolverstone had to put up with where they could only pile for the new pontoons in March when some poxy bird (That craps all over my boat) had finished nesting. I doubt the bird could have given a dam about the noise but sadly the RSPB are way too powerfull.

Now look at La Rochell and the massive marina they built, guess what? it created jobs and Beneteau, Jeanneau and Dufour have factories there. The French will totally ignore MCZs when it suits them. About time we followed their lead.

Rant over.
 
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As far as I can understand it (not very far!) the whole coast will eventually be divided into MCZs, and for each one there will be a sort of plan which will show any areas where something specific should or should not happen. If that's correct there's no significance to Orwell and Stour being in a zone, the only issue is whether there's anything proposed there, and if so what. If there's nothing shown, there aren't any proposals at present

I don't know any of this definitively, so happy to be corrected if I've got it wrong.
 
LittleSister said:
As far as I can understand it (not very far!) the whole coast will eventually be divided into MCZs, and for each one there will be a sort of plan which will show any areas where something specific should or should not happen. If that's correct there's no significance to Orwell and Stour being in a zone, the only issue is whether there's anything proposed there, and if so what. If there's nothing shown, there aren't any proposals at present.
I don't know any of this definitively, so happy to be corrected if I've got it wrong.
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Right, minor corrections coming up!
- there is no stated intention to divide the whole coast into MCZs. The work so far has been to identify where MCZs should be, based on various factors like habitats. That initial work is complete and the proposals that have gone in propose MCZs in various places like the Stour, Orwell, Swale and Medway amongst others.
- this work does not specify what actions if any should be taken in these proposed MCZs if they are adopted - that comes later. That is the whole point of recent posts in this thread. There most certainly will be proposed actions!
 
Thanks for flagging this up Jim.
I've tried to read it but it either exceeds my intellectual capacity or my boredom threshold, probably both.
Is it a competition to see how many acronyms you can squeeze into one report?
My eyes keep glazing over.
Could some kind soul who understands what's going on please give a precis?
Thanks.
Dan:confused:
 
It says (in so many words)...

We've agreed a whole load of areas that we think should receive special attention as potentially important areas to protect the seas... amongst these, we've got a few that we'll focus even more attention on.

Shortly we'll start a consultation on what that 'attention' should be.

Not a lot more than that really
 
So, if I read it aright it comes down to ...

We haven't really finished the job we set out to do but we've run out of time

We've included stuff that may not even be there in order to meet our targets

We're not sure what's going on where but we'll designate the biggest possible areas anyway

Where there is no consensus we'll waffle and leave the problem for somebody else to sort out

What a ****in' waste of time and money!

Efficient it certainly ain't!
 
It would appear, Brigantia, notwithstanding any other comments that may be forthcoming, and subject to possible input from my legal team, not of course forgetting any other survey data to which we have hitherto not been privy....
...that you're probably not far from the truth!
 
So, let me see if I've got this right.
The RSGs, SNCBs, SEEBF, BMAPA, CRPMEM, CEFAS. DEFRA, EA, IFCA, JNCC, NCSs and many other organisations will consider information from CO, ENG, EUNIS, SFC, SAP and many other organisations.
After that they will draft, among other things, a BAI, GCI, GIS, Mar LIN, MCZs, MPAs, rMCZs, rRA, SACs, [both dSACs & pSAcs], SPAs, & a VA.
This will , of course, take into account things like, AAEIs, GCRs, SNCBs etc.

One important item which has to be decided is where high water mark will be.
So that's all very simples, shouldn't be too difficult to understand WTF.
 
DanTribe said:
So, let me see if I've got this right.
The RSGs, SNCBs, SEEBF, BMAPA, CRPMEM, CEFAS. DEFRA, EA, IFCA, JNCC, NCSs and many other organisations will consider information from CO, ENG, EUNIS, SFC, SAP and many other organisations.
After that they will draft, among other things, a BAI, GCI, GIS, Mar LIN, MCZs, MPAs, rMCZs, rRA, SACs, [both dSACs & pSAcs], SPAs, & a VA.
This will , of course, take into account things like, AAEIs, GCRs, SNCBs etc.

One important item which has to be decided is where high water mark will be.
So that's all very simples, shouldn't be too difficult to understand WTF.
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:D
 
For anyone interested the Essex Coastal conference takes place this thursday the 29th at shire hall chelmsford, two of us are going though i expect our brains will go into abbreviation short circuit, still we get lunch!
 
Keith 66 said:
For anyone interested the Essex Coastal conference takes place this thursday the 29th at shire hall chelmsford, two of us are going though i expect our brains will go into abbreviation short circuit, still we get lunch!
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Nothing like a couple of TLAs to confuse the FNGs - feel free to throw in a couple of your own, it makes you sound like you know what you are talking about.
 
If they're recommending a MCZ in the Blackwater, how does that reconcile with the plan to put a new nuclear power station in Bradwell???
 
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