2024, Natural England, Environment Agency, JNCC, and Cefas, Offshore Wind Evidence and Change Programme, Marine Restoration Potential plus (MaRePo+) series https://portal.medin.org.uk/portal/start.php?tpc=015_82d59835-96cf-4141-b432-aec22881608c Marine Restoration Potential (MaRePo) project is a study which explores the habitat restoration potential of some key threatened and declining (subtidal) marine habitats as defined by the OSPAR convention: kelp forest, maerl beds, native oyster (Ostrea edulis) beds, horse mussel (Modiolus modiolus) beds, and sea pen and burrowing megafauna communities. These habitats were chosen as they occurred within English waters and were known to have some possibility for active or passive restoration interventions. This project uses a spatial analysis approach to investigate the current, historic, and potential future distribution of these habitats in English waters (out to 200 nautical miles (nm) from the shore). The Marine Restoration Potential + Enhancement project (MaRePo+) builds on the Marine Restoration Potential (MaRePo) pilot study, which mapped the restoration potential of some of the OSPAR known threatened and declining marine habitats in English waters. This report provides the outputs of Work Package 1, which focuses on refining the initial environmental habitat potential models for kelp, native oyster and horse mussel beds, and sea-pen and burrowing megafauna habitats. The datasets from this research will be published a few weeks after the reports are published on the Marine Data Exchange. 20241017T13:22:26