This week we are discussing the urgent challenges facing the UK’s coasts and seas, balancing protection with demand and how one interdisciplinary group of scientists, policymakers, community and industry experts came together to tackle the problem.

To explore how researchers and experts from different sides came together to form the Sustainable Management of UK Marine Resources Network, and the impacts of their work, Professor David Patterson and Dr Mark James of St Andrews University and SMMR champions joined us on the podcast.