Marine strategy part three: 2025

The UK government has issued its most recent update to the Marine Strategy Part Three: 2025 UK programme of measures.
The strategy outlines the measures that contribute towards Good Environmental Status (GES) in UK seas.
This strategy is an update to the Marine strategy part three: UK programme of measures published in 2015. Part three is the final part in our marine strategy and complements the existing parts of the strategy:
- Marine strategy part one sets out an initial assessment of our seas and characteristics, targets and indicators of GES
- Marine strategy part two sets out monitoring programmes for measuring progress towards GES
Follow this link to read the Marine Strategy Part Three: 2025 UK programme of measures.
2020-2021 CHASM Report

Since early 2020 the first stages of a project concentrating on lobsters and sediment has been taking place in the seas surrounding the Manhood Peninsula south of Chichester, West Sussex. This is the CHASM Project (CHASM | Manhood Peninsula Partnership). The acronym stands for Crustaceans, Habitat And Sediment Movement. The project began following Sea’s the Day (Sea’s the... Read More»
2023 BLUE Sediment Workshop

CHASM, in partnership with the marine charity BLUE Marine Foundation, delivered a workshop examining marine sediment influencing Selsey and the rest of the Sussex Coast. The workshop took place on 18 May 2023 and was funded by the Rewilding Network. This was the Sussex Sediment Monitoring and Adaptive Response Workshop, which brought together the key regulators involved in... Read More»
2024 CHASM Sediment Report

This report provides an update of analysis conducted as part of the CHASM (Crustacean, Habitats and Sediment Movement) project carried out by the University of Southampton in summer 2024. It seeks to understand environmental change from a sediments perspective, and sets out to answer a series of questions using various data sources and analysis. The questions are: 1. What sediments... Read More»