PMF advice documents relating to fishing gear
Our advice for each of the 11 Priority Marine Features identified as most sensitive to bottom-contacting mobile fishing gear.
Our Priority Marine Features (PMF) advice documents provide information on the distribution, ecology, status and sensitivity of the 11 PMFs most sensitive to bottom-contacting mobile fishing activity. They also include existing and proposed fisheries measures providing PMF protection and our recommendations on additional key locations for protection.
- Blue mussel beds
- Cold-water coral reefs
- Fan mussel aggregations
- Flame shell beds
- Horse mussel beds
- Maerl beds
- Maerl or coarse shell gravel with burrowing sea cucumbers
- Native oysters
- Northern sea fan and sponge communities
- Seagrass beds
- Serpulid aggregations
