A report published on 11 June, 2009 by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee has revealed major declines in many UK seabirds since the late 1960s. The report by JNCC – using information from the UK’s Seabird Monitoring Programme – reveals that the UK populations of at least nine of the UK’s 25 species seabird have [...]
According to the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation there is a comprehensive and growing list of conservation measures being spearheaded by the Scottish fleet which include: Two large decommissioning schemes in 2001 and 2003, which has resulted in a 65 per cent reduction in the Scottish whitefish fleet. Further decommissioning schemes, subject to careful analysis of need, [...]
Though Sharkatag 2009 is neither a competition nor a commercial event it has attracted a terrific number of dedicated, conservation minded sea anglers from Cornwall to Caithness who will try to help provide a strong set of base data for SSACN’s Scottish Shark Tagging Proramme by tagging as many shark species as possible. Over the [...]
88% of European fish stocks are overexploited. Of these, 69% are at risk of collapse. Each day in European waters : More than 55,000 tonnes of oily and bilge waters and fuel waste are spilled into the sea More than 350,000 hectares of the sea bed are impacted by trawlers 20,000 tonnes of fish are [...]
The nightmare future in store for the world’s oceans has already arrived on the Firth of Clyde, where my wife and I spent every family holiday in the 1990s when our children were small. Back in the 1960s when I was a child, two angling festivals were held every year on the Isle of Arran. [...]
They’ve got what it takes to save Scottish sea angling – the following is our response to and the original email / press release from Ian Hudghton MEP. The Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network Any help that can be given to ‘Save Scottish Sea Angling’ will naturally be welcomed by the 100,000+ sea anglers [...]
Scottish fishermen are to take part in trials of “spy in the boat” technology aimed at overhauling EU fishing practices to end the waste of discarding thousands of tonnes of dead fish at sea. The plan will give fishermen bigger catch quotas in return for closed-circuit television monitoring on board. The Scottish government will begin [...]
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