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featuredimage The Not Forgotten Event

This post is extracted from a report written by Captain Andy Bridson who put on a charity fishing event for the Not Forgotten Association which provides leisure and recreation for wounded serving and ex-service men and women with disabilities – guys who deserve total respect. Anyone wishing to make a ...

MCZ project Newsletter 2

The second MCZ Project Newsletter designed to keep stakeholders up-to-date with the work of the Marine Conservation Zone Project has been published. The key points are - the process to designate Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) as part of an ecologically coherent network of Marine ...

featuredimage Latest SSACN Newsletter

Now available here (pdf) - a round up of some of SSACN's activities to date this year. The newsletter focuses on two major projects – The Scottish Shark Tagging Programme (SSTP – www.tagsharks.com) and a Scottish Industry Science Partnership (SISP) activity, where SSACN are the industry lead, to develop a ...

With the BBC in Loch Etive

The BBC approached the SSTP as they were interested in the conservation work we are doing involving sea anglers and Spurdog. They joined the SSTP aboard Ronnie Campbells boat Laura Dawn to try and tag some Spurdog in Loch Etive. The presenter Frank Pope, who also writes for the Times ...

Solway for tourists and anglers – or windfarms ?

A MASSIVE windfarm development off the Stewartry coast could have a devastating effect on the fragile tourist industries, especially those associated with sea angling which is worth around £25 million/yr to the area. Alarm bells are ringing after it emerged some of the huge turbines covering 52 square kilometres ...

featuredimage World Conference on Marine Biodiversity

From their website Vision The oceans provide an irreplaceable resource to humankind which must be protected and managed into the future. The impact of changes in biodiversity as a result of direct and indirect human impact must be fully considered. Aim of the conference The World Conference on Marine Biodiversity ...

Loch Etive ICZM – July update

Following the public meeting in Connel on 15 June 2010, the record and presentations from Dawnfresh, Argyll Fisheries Trust and Argyll and Bute Council have been added to the Marine and Coastal Development Unit’s pages of the Council website at www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/lochetive There will only be one more public ICZM ...

featuredimage Irish Sea Conservation mapping

From the Irish Sea Project Group. A new interactive map is now available online that makes it easier for sea users to record which parts of the Irish Sea are important to them. You can find the map at www.mczmapping.org. The information gathered through the interactive map will play an ...

featuredimage Sharkatag juniors on BBC / CBBC

During Sharkatag the CBBC / BBC Newsround programme did a item for their programme where the interviewer ‘Leah’ went out in one of the boats along with Kiera Merrifield and Bradley Burrett – you may see the item on the CBBC / BBC website       Leah with ...

UK Marine Act Implementation – Public Consultation

21st July 2010 – 13th October 2010 Info release from Defra Please be advised the public consultations and supporting documents on the Marine Policy Statement, the Marine Planning System and Marine Licensing are now live and can be accessed on the following links: The Marine Policy Statement (UK) will be the first part of new [...]


A catastrophe in waiting

Failure to reform the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) could be catastrophic for fish stocks EU Fisheries Ministers were told at a Luxembourg summit and following a presentation by Commissioner Maria Damanaki, Fisheries Ministers had an exchange of views on the available policy options for the reform of the CFP. Unsurprisingly, the meeting was told that [...]


West of Scotland, Irish and Celtic Sea stocks

In the EU’s latest Consultation on Fishing Opportunities for 2011, their latest assessment of the fish stocks for the West of Scotland, Irish and Celtic Sea stocks show that many stocks are depleted. It also shows there are widespread problems with recording of catches and other data to the point that the state of the [...]


Scott slams SNP comments

Following meetings this morning at Peterhead quay side with North East fishing representatives, including skipper Jimmy Buchan and the Chief Executive of the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation, Bertie Armstrong, Scottish Conservatives Fisheries spokesman, John Scott MSP, has slammed the SNP for remarks made by their President, Ian Hudghton MEP, seemingly praising Icelandic fisheries management. John Scott [...]


SEA Consultation Events

The Scottish Government will shortly be running consultation events to discuss the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Draft Plan for Offshore Wind in Scottish Territorial Waters. The SEA provides a framework for progressing the development of offshore wind energy out to 12 NM, and along with the draft plan presents the Government’s vision for offshore [...]


Cod quotas to be cut further

Scottish fishing industry leaders have called for calm heads in the wake of scientific advice recommending a 20% cut to North Sea cod quotas. The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) have said the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) suggestion would "kill off businesses" as right now they are absolutely at the bone [...]


UK fisheries in distress

Condensed from an article by Lindsey Partos, SeafoodSource contributing editor. 23 July, 2010. A vast majority of scientifically assessed stocks in the United Kingdom are fished at rates well above levels for high long-term yield, according to a new government report. Five years on from the UK’s Charting Progress report, the updated snapshot of the [...]


Salmond no easy fix for cod

In a letter to Cod Crusader Carol MacDonald, sea fishery policy official Stuart Baxter told her that the Scottish Government understands her “frustration and concern”  over the process involved in trying to improve the Cod Recovery Plan, but like other governments, Scotland is stuck with the system. Mrs MacDonald had originally emailed Alex Salmond for [...]


No trawling increases quality of stocks

Thanks to a 70-year old trawling ban, cod fishing in the sound between Sweden and Denmark could now be counted as 100 times more productive than in neighboring Kattegat, a new Swedish study shows. Whilst the Öresund area has an annual cod catch of approx 2,500 tonnes, cod catches in the ten times larger Kattegat [...]


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