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BMAPA and Crown Estate Launch Initiative on Aggregates Zoning
01 Feb 2003
The British Marine Aggregate Producers Association (BMAPA) and The Crown Estate have launched a new initiative to provide more detailed information on the zoning of marine aggregate licence areas located around the coastline of England and Wales.
Since 1999, they have been working under a joint statement of intent entitled 'the area involved'. They have produced a series of annual reports detailing the area of seabed licensed, the fourth of which was issued in 2002.
Whilst information on zoning arrangements is widely circulated by individual operators, discussions with the fishing industry identified the need for clear and up-to-date regional overview. As a result, a series of charts have been produced defining the current active dredge area for eight separate regions. On the reverse of each are the associated co-ordinates for each licence area together with contact details for the operating companies.
The first issue of the active dredge area charts (dated 31 January 2003) is available to be downloaded from the websites of both BMAPA (www.bmapa.org) and The Crown Estate (www.crownestate.co.uk), and copies will also be distributed via the established dredging liaison committees on the South and East coast.
The charts will be updated biannually with the second issue due on 30 June 2003.
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