Natural Natural England 12/11/2015 - Ingrid England Chudleigh clarification note V2.3 Kent and Essex 12/01/2016 15/01/2016 - Will Wright, IFCA Jane Heywood and Vicky Foster V0.3 Natural England 28/06/2016 22/07/2016 - Natural and Kent and England: Ingrid Chudleigh, Essex IFCA Mike Quigley, Mark Duffy and Lucy Abram V0.5 Kent and Essex 02/09/2016 IFCA, Will Wright Margate and Long Sands Site of Community Importance (SCI) MMO Fisheries Assessment 1. Summary Table 1 shows a summary of the outcomes of this assessment of the impact of fishing in this SCI. Features Matrix Gear Type Part A Part B In-combination Outcome Outcome Assessment Beam trawl (whitefish) Beam trawl (shrimp) Beam trawl (pulse/wing) LSE Heavy otter trawl Adverse effect Multi-rig trawls Subtidal coarse sediment Light otter trawl Pair trawl and No adverse Mussels, clams, oysters effect with Pump scoop (cockles, No Subtidal mixed sediments proposed clams) No LSE adverse management Suction (cockles) effect and Gill nets Trammels Subtidal sand Entangling No adverse No LSE Drift nets (demersal) effect Pots/creels (crustacea/gastropods) 2. Introduction Table 2: Details of Area Name and legal Status of Name of site(s) Legal status site(s): Margate and Long Sands SCI
Natural England clarification note Natural England 12/11/2015 - Ingrid Chudleigh V2.3 Kent and Essex IFCA 12/01/2016 15/01/2016 - Will Wright, Jane Heywood and Vicky Foster V0.3 Natural England and Kent and Essex IFCA 28/06/2016 22/07/2016 - Natural England: Ingrid Chudleigh, Mike Quigley, Mark Duffy and Lucy Abram V0.5 Kent and Essex IFCA, Will Wright 02/09/2016 Margate and Long Sands Site of Community Importance (SCI) MMO Fisheries Assessment 1. Summary Table 1 shows a summary of the outcomes of this assessment of the impact of fishing in this SCI. Features Matrix Gear Type Part A Outcome Part B Outcome In-combination Assessment Subtidal coarse sediment and Subtidal mixed sediments and Subtidal sand Beam trawl (whitefish) LSE Adverse effect No adverse effect with proposed management Beam trawl (shrimp) Beam trawl (pulse/wing) Heavy otter trawl Multi-rig trawls Light otter trawl Pair trawl Mussels, clams, oysters No LSE No adverse effect Pump scoop (cockles, clams) Suction (cockles) Gill nets No LSE No adverse effect Trammels Entangling Drift nets (demersal) Pots/creels (crustacea/gastropods) 2. Introduction Table 2: Details of Area Name and legal Status of site(s): Name of site(s) Legal status Margate and Long Sands SCI