Marine Management Organisation Employee Directory
Government AdministrationEngland, United Kingdom201-500 Employees
The Marine Management Organisation is a UK government body responsible for licensing, regulating, and planning marine activities in the seas around England to ensure sustainable use of ocean resources and the protection of biodiversity. Its remit includes managing fishing fleet sizes and catch quotas, enforcing vessel licences and time-at-sea rules, and administering funding programmes for fisheries activities. It also plans and licenses marine construction, deposits, and dredging projects that may have environmental, economic, or social impacts, and it establishes marine nature conservation byelaws and wildlife licences. Based in Newcastle in the North East of England, the MMO operates as a government administration with a workforce in the hundreds. It develops marine plans that cover all activities in the marine environment, including those outside its direct regulation, and it responds to marine pollution emergencies such as oil spills. It also works to prevent illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing worldwide and provides updates through GOV.UK and its official social channels.