Legislation
The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (as amended)
Protection All cetaceans
Details
Schedule five: all cetaceans are fully protected within UK territorial waters. This protects them from killing or injury, sale, destruction of a particular habitat (which they use for protection or shelter) and disturbance. Schedule six: Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis, bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus and harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena; prevents these species being used as a decoy to attract other animals. This schedule also prohibits the use of vehicles to take or drive them, prevents nets, traps or electrical devices from being set in such a way that would injure them and prevents the use of nets or sounds to trap or snare them.
The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000
Oslo and Paris Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment (OSPAR)
Conservation of Seals Act 1970
UK Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP)
All cetaceans
Bowhead whale Balaena mysticetus, northern right whale Eubalaena glacialis, blue whale Balaenoptera musculus, and harbour porpoise
Grey and harbour seal
It is an offence to deliberately or recklessly damage, or disturb any cetacean in English and Welsh protected waters under this Act.
OSPAR has established a list of threatened and/or declining species in the North east Atlantic. These species have been targeted as part of further work on the conservation and protection of marine biodiversity under Annex V of the OSPAR Convention. The list seeks to complement, but not duplicate, the work under the European Commission (EC) Habitats and Birds directives and measures under the Berne Convention and the Bonn Convention.
Provides closed seasons, during which it is an offence to take or kill any seal, except under licence or in certain particular circumstances (grey seal: 1 September to 31 December; harbour seal: 1 June to 31 August). Following the halving of the harbour seal population as a result of the Phocine Distemper Virus (PDV) in 1988, an Order was issued under the Act which provided year round protection of both grey and harbour seal on the east coast of England. The Order was last renewed in 1999.
Harbour porpoise
Harbour porpoise are a feature of the Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex Local Biodiversity Action Plans (LBAPs). These LBAPs are plans which seek to ensure that nationally and locally important species and habitats are conserved and enhanced in a given area through focused local action.
Preliminary Environmental Information May 2014
East Anglia THREE Offshore Windfarm
Chapter 12 Marine Mammal Ecology Page 16
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