West Coast prawn fishing boats are set for a much-needed boost after the European Commission accepted that they should be exempt from days at sea restrictions. Working with fishermen, the Scottish government has been fighting to have West Coast vessels that catch very little or no cod exempt from EU restrictions. If approved at the [...]
SUSTAINABLE fishing sea trials involving Brixham fishermen have produced impressive results which could lead to a breakthrough in attempts to preserve fish stocks, it has been announced today. Beam trawler nets traditionally have a mesh size of at least 80mm which traps a high degree of unwanted catch which has no market value or is [...]
Member’s Post :: This year, many anglers found the mackerel very elusive. Arrivals were often late and quantities in some areas, relatively sparse. As the summer progressed, reports came in from Iceland saying that they had an unparalleled inundation of mackerel up there. The Icelandic fishermen ended up asking their government for increased mackerel quota, [...]
Condensed from an article on forargyll.com 3,500 tonnes – that is the minimum estimate of fish thrown back into the Clyde as ‘by-catch’ and ‘discards’. A report was disseminated at the AGM of Community of Arran Seabed Trust (COAST) which included appalling figures on the destruction of young fish caught in prawn nets and thrown [...]
Dr Bill Wilson, an SNP MSP for the West of Scotland and member of the Scottish Parliament’s Rural Affairs and Environment Committee, has had his amendment to the Marine (Scotland) Bill, calling for the establishment of a representative network of conservation sites, which would include Nature Conservation Marine Protected Areas, approved. He commented today, “I [...]
Member’s post :: Two commercial skippers were fined at Chichester magistrates in the past week for illegal fishing for black bream. More on the story here. The skippers in question have apparently been fined at least five times each, since 2001, for similar offences. So what can we deduce from these facts? It suggests that [...]
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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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