NIEL Recommendations
- Fully implement a robust marine spatial plan for NI
- Develop an efficient system of Marine Spatial Planning – a statutory duty to designate an effective and an ecologically functioning network of Marine Protected Areas
- Establish of an independent Marine Management Organisation for Northern Ireland – to ensure cross–border integration and the application of the ecosystem approach to management
- Implementation of Marine Litter Strategy
- Implement an integrated Coastal Zone Management Strategy
- Promotion of Shoreline Planning for Northern Ireland as a tool to manage complex issues in the dynamic coastal zone (for example, sea level rise, coastal erosion, managed realignment)
Links
- C-MAR Group
- Causeway Coast and Glens Heritage Trust
- Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
- NetRegs
- Northern Ireland Environment Agency
- Surfers Against Sewage
- Ulster Angling Federation
- Northern Ireland Marine Task Force
- Friends of the Earth NI
- RSPB
- Irish Whale and Dolphin Group
- National Trust
- Ulster Wildlife
- Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust
- WWF