Informing English Aquaculture Strategy

UK wide
2019-2022
Project Code: 019B
Policy and evidence contributions towards meeting the ambitions of Seafood2040 and the English Aquaculture Strategy (relating to marine spatial planning and Marine Protected Areas), Exe Estuary Catchment Management Plan and Natural England seaweed culture sector review.
Impact Summary

Project team

Project Lead
Ross Brown
Impact Fellow
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Charles Tyler
Academic Lead
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Donna Carless
Impact Fellow
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Ben Jackson
Impact Fellow
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James Webber
Impact Fellow
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Sara Zonneveld
Impact Fellow
Carly Daniels
Academic Collaborator
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Amy Binner
Academic Collaborator
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Richard Brazier
Academic Lead
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Diana Tingley
Impact Facilitation
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Ricardo Torres
Academic Lead
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Yuri Artioli
Academic Collaborator
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Giovanni Galli
Academic Collaborator
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Peter Land
Academic Collaborator
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Peter Miller
Academic Collaborator
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Mel Austen
Academic Lead
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Phoebe Stewart-Sinclair
PhD Student
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Image credit: Andy Woolmer

Partners

What we did

Policy briefs developed for links between mariculture and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) 

  • Report: ‘Developing general rules to facilitate evidence-based policy for mariculture development in and around Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in England’ 
  • Policy Brief : ‘Potential for Marine Aquaculture Development in and around Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in England’ 
  • Policy Statement and Policy Brief  ‘Supporting Mariculture Development: Evidence for Informed Regulation’

Impacts & benefits

Policy briefs developed for links between mariculture and MPAs – This work informed policy recommendations within Seafish’s ‘English Aquaculture Strategy’, setting out vision and plan for ten-fold increase in food production from sector 2020-2040.