Lyme Bay Fisheries & Conservation Reserve Project

Co-management in action

Fishermen and conservationists get together, shock

They don’t fall out, ditto

…and it sort of works!

Where is Lyme Bay?

The Reserve Area

The Reserve are corresponds with the Special Area for Conservation (an EU nature conservation designation)

The history: Scalloping + Reefs + Pots = Conflict

The Blue Marine approach

MOU/ Code of conduct

Evidence based management

The potting study

Adding value

Working with wildlife

A model for elsewhere?