Even though spurdog are at 5% of their original biomass and evidence from anglers suggests that Lochs Sunnart and Etive and surrounding waters have unique resident populations and that the spurdog pup in the region, Cabinet Secretary Lochhead and the Marine Directorate still require further evidence before they will to take any action to protect [...]
Helga Pedersen, Norway’s fisheries minister, has announced that Norway is set to introduce strict new rules for commercial fishing boats, irrespective of their nationality, which will require all fish caught within its waters to be landed at an official fishing port. The proposal to tighten Norwegian fishing rules is being seen as a consequence of [...]
Scottish MEP Struan Stevenson today hit out at the discarding of fish at sea. Following on from a recent issue where a Scottish trawler ‘Prolific’ (sic) was filmed dumping around 5,000 kg of cod and other white fish (around 80 % of its catch) in the UK sector of the North Sea after catching the [...]
Today we received a substantial donation of £1500 from the Loch Lomond Aquarium SEA LIFE Centre to help support our educational outreach activities. The Loch Lomond Aquarium and 11 other SEA LIFE centres have also installed a series of information boards highlighting the plight of sharks, with a special focus on spurdog. Ian Burrett, SSACN’s [...]
John Scott MSP – Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs & the Environment has joined condemnation of Fisheries Minister Richard Lochhead for his refusal to prohibit the commercial fishing of tope, a rare species of shark. Mr Scott said: “I am dismayed that despite the UK Government recently banning the fishing of tope other than [...]
Just recently Border ITV gave a 3 and 1/2 minute segment to highlight the crazy situation where it is illegal to land tope on the English side of the Solway, but legal on the Scottish side. This is due to the Scottish Governments’ refusal to introduce a statutory instrument similar to the English Tope (Prohibition [...]
Defra undertook a public consultation of their draft Recreational Sea Angling (RSA) Strategy between 6 December 2007 and 31 March 2008. The results may be found in this pdf document. Four key issues emerged from the responses and Defra’s analysis, they were whether respondents were in favour or opposed to : A sea angling licence [...]
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UK Initial Assessment and proposals for Good Environmental Status
Consultation Start: 27 March 2012 – Consultation End: 18 June 2012 This is a joint consultation between Defra, the Northern Ireland Executive, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government and on the implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). The Directive requires Member States to take measures to achieve or maintain Good Environmental Status [...]
Argyll and the Isles coast and countryside trust
Argyll and Bute Council have formed a partnership steering group with Scottish Natural Heritage, Forestry Commission Scotland, ABSEN, and Argyll & Bute Local Services Initiative to look at the possibility of establishing a new independent trust. The proposed aim of the Trust would be to: ‘work together to sustainably maintain, enhance and promote the coast [...]
Marine Strategy Framework Directive Consultation Event
Defra, the Northern Ireland Executive, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government are planning to launch a joint consultation on the implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) on 27 March 2012. You will be able to find the consultation documents on the Defra web site http://www.defra.gov.uk/consult/open/ Defra will be hosting a stakeholder event [...]
Argyll & Bute – Coastal Development Strategy
Argyll and Bute Council are preparing a Coastal Development Strategy as part of their new Local Development Plan. One of the key sectors that will be considered in the Strategy is coastal tourism & recreation and therefore the Council is seeking information and views to ensure a relevant, effective and up to date strategy is [...]
EGPS & Renewable Energy Routemap consultations
The Scottish Government has published a Revised Draft Electricity Generation Policy Statement (EGPS) and a draft Renewable Energy Routemap. These draft policies together set out Scottish Government policy for low carbon energy generation. Both policies are now open for public consultation which ends 4 June 2012. A Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) under the Environmental Assessment [...]
Marine Social and Economic Data Project 2012
Robust and current data is needed urgently in the marine environment where policy makers are dealing with a number of new legislative requirements such as the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, the development of Marine Spatial Plans and the designation of new Marine Protected Areas. In response to this, EMU Limited in collaboration with the Marine [...]
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