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A practical, experience-based guide to help applicants understand and navigate the marine licensing process, based on learning from the Ports Sandbox.
This guidance explains when deposit activities may need a marine licence from the Marine Management Organisation.
Read guidance on how to invite users to your Defra account and give them access to Get permission for marine work.
How traditional and advanced mooring systems can affect the seabed, and what consent or marine licence you may need to install, maintain, or remove a mooring in English waters
How you can manage, allocate, swap, transfer or lease fishing quotas.
Information to support vessel owners and licence holders of under-12 metre English vessels.
Find site specific guidance, management measures, assessments, decisions and monitoring for marine activities that do not need a marine licence
Current quota catch limits for the over 10 metres non-sector pool including details on 3 monthly limits for stocks
Marine plans are statutory plans that guide and inform how English marine plan areas are used and developed.
Become an IFCA Member and help protect England’s inshore waters, support coastal communities and influence the future of marine conservation
This guidance explains when construction, alteration or improvement works may need a marine licence from the Marine Management Organisation.
This area covers ICES areas 7e, 7f and 7g; from St Alban’s Head, round the coast of Cornwall, including the Isles of Scilly and up to Bristol.
MMO has carried out assessments on the impacts of fishing gear on protected features in Stage 3 MPAs as well as an assessment of the social and economic impacts of the proposed byelaws.
Guidance for offshore wind developers on post-consent monitoring standards.
Guidance for laboratories on physical and chemical determinands for sediment sampling to support marine licence applications.
Information on the designation of UK ports for direct landings by foreign vessels and UK vessels according to licence conditions.
An accelerated licensing process may apply to some applications for dredging activity.
This area covers from Mablethorpe in Lincolnshire through to Hythe in Kent.
Stage 3 marine protected areas (MPA) site assessments and a methodology document.
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) aims to help the fishing industry maximise use of quotas.
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