Consultation on the Northern Ireland Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) Strategy Review

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Consultation opened on 22 April 2024. Closing date 11 July 2024 at 17:00.

Summary

The Department and its stakeholders have reviewed Northern Ireland’s Marine Protected Areas Strategy, which was first published in 2014. The Department is now consulting on the Marine Protected Areas Strategy for the Northern Ireland Inshore Area 2024-2030 and would like to hear your views. We are using Citizen Space for collating responses from stakeholders – please provide your responses to the survey online if you can. If you are unable to complete this survey online, please contact the team by email on marine.conservation@daera-ni.gov.uk or call 028 77442191.

Documents

Review of Marine Protected Areas Strategy Consultation Paper
PDF (1.5 MB)
Equality & Disability Duties Screening for the Marine Protected Areas Strategy Review
PDF (383 KB)
Rural Needs Impact Assessment (RNIA) for the Marine Protected Areas Strategy Review
PDF (229 KB)

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Consultation description

The Marine Protected Areas Strategy for the Northern Ireland Inshore Area 2024-30 consultation document provides an outline of the policy drivers for the development of this strategy and sets out the Objectives and Actions which we consider necessary to ensure that our marine protected areas are managed to address biodiversity loss while providing adaptation and resilience to climate change.

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