Due to numerous requests, we would like to clarify the difference between the Marine Conservation Zone Project and the ‘Your Seas, Your Voice’ campaign.

The Marine Conservation Zone project is a partnership project working with people who use the sea for their livelihood or leisure to identify Marine Conservation Zones. The project will make its recommendations to the government.

The ‘Your Seas, Your Voice’ campaign is run by the Marine Conservation Society (MCS), the UK charity for the protection of British seas.

The Marine Conservation Society is one of the organisations engaged with the Marine Conservation Zones Project and has a spokesperson on each of the four regional stakeholder groups.

The information gathered through the ‘Your Seas Your Voice’ campaign is being considered alongside relevant data brought to the negotiations by representatives of other sea users and interest groups.

It is important to understand that the MCZ Project’s final recommendations may be different to suggestions put forward by the ‘Your Seas, Your Voice’ campaign.

It is the MCZ Project that will be sending the final recommendations later this year to the independent Science Advisory Panel, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee and Natural England.