Tranche Three MCZ Workshop
JNCC and Natural England have been asked by Defra to provide
scientific advice on the suite of site options from which they
could select potential Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) that could
form a third tranche of MCZ designations. It was requested that the
site options were discussed with stakeholders, before our
scientific advice on whether an area meets the necessary
‘standards’ to be eligible for designation is submitted. As
JNCC is responsible for site options in offshore waters (beyond 12
nautical miles), a stakeholder workshop was organised as part of
our advice process. The workshop ran over two days – 14-15th
November 2016 and focused on offshore waters around England and
Northern Ireland.
Day 1 focused on Areas of Search being considered for new site
options, while day 2 provided an opportunity to discuss the range
of site options in each region in the context of the conservation
advice being developed by JNCC. Comments and further information
brought to the table on both days during breakout and plenary
sessions were recorded by a note-taker and summary notes by the
facilitator to ensure that all views and inputs were captured.
These recordings were then used to produce reports of each breakout
session alongside the report by the external facilitator. Any
alternative proposals made by stakeholders for Areas of Search to
be considered for new site options were investigated by JNCC and
Natural England to ensure there is sufficient data to consider
these further. The breakout session reports, facilitator report and
data report for alternative proposed areas are available to
download below.
Prior to the workshop JNCC produced a detailed guide for the
workshop to share with all invitees, alongside other supporting
materials for the different sessions, which can also be downloaded
below. During the workshop several attendees requested access to
shapefiles and coordinates for both the Areas of Search boundaries
and also the boundaries of the existing regional MCZ project
recommendations (referred to as rMCZs). Designated MCZs with
additional features being proposed for Tranche Three are also
within the latter shapefile, and these can also be downloaded from
this webpage. The presentations from the workshop have also been
made available.
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Post-workshop reports |
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Supporting workshop
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Data |
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Presentations |
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Additional relevant papers listed in the workshop guide which
support the discussions we will have during the workshop can be
found on the JNCC Tranche Three MCZ Advice webpage.
Tranche Three MCZ Webinar
Following on from the Tranche Three Marine
Conservation Zone stakeholder workshop in November 2016, JNCC
hosted a webinar on 6th February 2017 to discuss the New
Site Options which have been subsequently developed following the
workshop. Several attendees expressed interest in further
engagement and this webinar was hosted to provide an opportunity
for us to give an overview of the work JNCC have been undertaking
since the workshop, and for stakeholders to raise any questions or
comments on the New Site Options.
The webinar recording is available below,
along with a document of the questions addressed in the webinar and
the presentation slides. The shapefile for the New Site Options is
also available under the Data downloads on this page.