We grow mussels in environmentally sensitive areas and are committed to ensuring that our aquaculture industry is a positive benefit to the marine and coastal environment.

We are strictly policed by several environmental agencies and adhere to environmental standards under several different programmes such as the Special Area of Conservation and Special Protection Area. We work with DEFRA, Countryside Council for Wales, the Shellfish Association of Great Britain and the Marine Stewardship Council.

We are dedicated marine enthusiasts and have organised our businesses to proactively find new and better ways to care for and protect the marine and coastal environments in which we work. Click on our Code of Good Practice for more information.

We have strong links with the University of Bangor’s School of Ocean Science and regularly sponsor research and development projects and provide information to interrogative projects that are designed to ensure our processes meet good environmental practice and standards. Click here for research plan.

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Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) are strictly protected sites designated under the EC Habitats Directive. Article 3 of the Habitats Directive requires the establishment of a European network of important high-quality conservation sites that are considered to be most in need of conservation at a European level. Further information can be found on the website of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee: http://www.jncc.gov.uk/page-23  

Special Protection Areas (SPAs) 

Special Protection Areas (SPAs) are strictly protected sites classified in accordance with Article 4 of the EC Birds Directive, which came into force in April 1979. They are classified for rare and vulnerable birds and for regularly occurring migratory species. Further information can be found on the website of the JNCC: http://www.jncc.gov.uk/page-162

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