The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) announced on 30 September 2026 a campaign, Your Coast – Explore, Enjoy, Protect, whose first phase is a call for evidence on how marine recreational activities affect protected features in marine protected areas (MPAs). The features listed include benthic habitats, birds, grey seals, harbour seals and Eurasian otters, reef habitats, seagrass beds, maerl beds, seahorses and stalked jellyfish.

Activities in scope included anchoring, diving and snorkelling, hovercraft, motorboats, motorised personal watercraft, paddle sports, sail boats, wildlife-watching boat tours and wind sports. The MMO invited partners, conservation groups, academics and recreational water users to review its evidence and share knowledge, data or additional evidence through an online survey. It said the call formed part of its marine non-licensable activity work, which aims to assess and, if required, manage recreational activity and anchoring in all inshore English MPAs.

Jessica Churchill-Bissett, the MMO's Head of Marine Conservation (Wildlife), said every piece of evidence, photograph and local insight would inform the organisation's approach. The MMO also appealed for photographs of protected seabed habitats and wildlife and directed contributors to the Marine and Coastal Wildlife Code.