Cumbria Coast is one of England's Marine Conservation Zones. It was designated in 2013 and is one of a number of such zones off the coast of Cumberland and Furness.
The MCZ covers the stretch of sea from Whitehaven down to the mouth of the Ravenglass Estuary.[1] It includes the sea off Sellafield (the nuclear fuel reprocessing and nuclear decommissioning site), and off St Bees Head.