Activities and Their Management

A wide variety of activities take place in or close to the offshore waters of the Berwickshire and Northumberland coast. Follow the links below to find out more about current activity and the potential mechanisms available to manage these

• Anchoring

• Angling (rod and line)

• Bait digging

• Beach cleaning

• Charter boating

• Coastal infrastructure and development

• Commercial fishing (mobile gear)

• Commercial fishing (netting)

• Creel/Pot fisheries

• Diffuse pollution

• Discharges from land

• Discharges at sea

• Diving

• Dredging and dredge disposal

• Flood and coastal defence

• Harbour development

• Harbour waste management

• Intertidal hand gathering

• Litter

• Low flying military aircraft

• Microlights and private aircraft

• Navigation aids

• Non-native species and biosecurity

• Ordnance disposal

• Pollution incidence response

• Recreation

• Seal management

• Seal stranding response

• Shellfish aquaculture

• Wildfowling and punt gunning