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Check the public register of marine licence applications and decisions

See details of applications for marine licences and the decisions made.

Do I need a marine licence?
- Detailed guide
- 27 January 2025
- Marine Management Organisation
Make a marine licence application
- Detailed guide
- 28 November 2024
- Marine Management Organisation
Marine licensing: Definitions
- Detailed guide
- 27 January 2025
- Marine Management Organisation
Contact MMO
- Detailed guide
- 30 March 2025
- Marine Management Organisation
Marine licensing exempted activities
- Statutory guidance
- 28 November 2024
- Marine Management Organisation

MMO grants coastal protection marine licences
- 13 May 2025
- Marine Management Organisation
- News story
Marine aggregate extraction, saltmarsh footbridge and research project all given green light by MMO
- 9 April 2025
- Marine Management Organisation
- News story
Studland Bay Marine Partnership
- 31 March 2025
- Marine Management Organisation
- Case study
The Dogger Bank C Offshore Wind Farm - schedule 8
- 16 December 2024
- Marine Management Organisation
- Decision
Marine licences granted for cables, flood defences and saltmarsh restoration
- 4 December 2024
- Marine Management Organisation
- News story

Dredged material disposal site monitoring round the coast of England
- 14 March 2024
- Marine Management Organisation
- Research
Review of Small-eyed ray in the western Channel (MMO1297)
- 18 November 2022
- Marine Management Organisation
- Research
Joint agency investigation into Teesside and Yorkshire Coast Crab and Lobster mortalities
- 15 November 2022
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Environment Agency, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, and Marine Management Organisation
- Research
Effort statistics October 2019
- 5 November 2019
- Marine Management Organisation
- Statistical data set
Enhancing stakeholder engagement: Analysis of experiences and insights (MMO1152)
- 25 October 2019
- Marine Management Organisation
- Research

Fisheries: removing the licence cap on 10 metre and under vessels
- 16 December 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 30 August 2023
Southern North Sea SCI - Proposed marine licence condition
- 11 September 2020
- Marine Management Organisation
- Closed consultation
- Date closed 27 February 2019
October 2019 catch limit consultation
- 19 September 2019
- Marine Management Organisation
- Closed consultation
- Date closed 25 September 2019
National FCERM strategy: Strategic Environmental Assessment scoping report
- 7 August 2019
- Environment Agency
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 09 October 2018
June 2019 catch limit consultation
- 22 May 2019
- Marine Management Organisation
- Closed consultation
- Date closed 28 May 2019

Combe Martin Seaweed Farm
- 10 April 2025
- Marine Management Organisation
- Transparency
Seaweed Farms Port Quin
- 4 April 2025
- Marine Management Organisation
- Transparency
Cliff protection measures at The View, Porth
- 19 December 2024
- Marine Management Organisation
- Transparency
The Port of Felixstowe Harbour Revision Order
- 13 December 2023
- Marine Management Organisation
- Transparency
The Falmouth Harbour Revision Order
- 29 August 2023
- Marine Management Organisation
- Transparency