MCS is fearlessly highlighting threats and promoting a solutions-based approach to protecting our seas. Here are just a few of our achievements in our first 25 years:
Cleaner seas
- The MCS Good Beach Guide has been instrumental in improving water quality at beaches around the UK. By highlighting beaches that achieve the highest water standards, MCS provided the incentive needed for investment at those where sewage was still being discharged. The Good Beach Guide website now receives over half a million hits every summer.
- MCS has involved over 20,000 volunteers in the widely acclaimed Beachwatch programme to clear litter from UK beaches, removing tens of thousands of tonnes of rubbish and running high profile campaigns to tackle litter at source.
- MCS is working closely with Rebecca Hosking from Modbury who persuaded her town to become the first plastic bag-free community in the UK, and we now host and support the list of over 70 towns and communities hoping to go plastic bag free.
Sustainable seafood
- The highly acclaimed MCS online resource for sustainable seafood: www.fishonline.org, has helped consumers to choose sustainably caught fish. Over a quarter of a million pocket MCS Good Fish Guides have been distributed!
- MCS advises the nation's major retailers, restaurateurs and others in the s
eafood supply chain on sustainable sourcing, resulting in the removal of threatened or unsustainably caught fish from sale, and promotion of healthy, well managed fisheries and responsible seafood retailers and businesses.
Marine life protection
- The basking shark was in serious decline until a 10-year MCS campaign resulted in their total protection under the Wildlife & Countryside Act.
MCS has championed the need for marine reserves to set aside areas where marine life is protected from damaging activities, and where fi sheries can recover. - Over 100,000 people have supported the MCS Marine Reserves Now campaign, including TV presenters Kate Humble and Graham Norton and Government Ministers.
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