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	<title>The Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network &#187; Highlight</title>
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	<description>THINK FISH FIRST</description>
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		<title>HM Coastguard Contacts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 10:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scotland &#38; N.Ireland Aberdeen Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre HM Coastguard 4th Floor Marine House Blaikies Quay ABERDEEN AB11 5PB Tel: 01224 592334 Fax: 01224 575920 Belfast Maritime Rescue Co-Ordination Centre HM Coastguard Bregenz House Quay Street BANGOR?Co.Down BT20 5ED Tel: 028 9146 3933 Fax: 028 9146 5886 Clyde Maritime Rescue Co-Ordination Centre HM Coastguard Navy [...]


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		<title>MCA urges sea anglers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[to wear lifejackets as fewer than 2.5% of shore anglers wear them when fishing according to research carried out by the Maritime &#38; Coastguard Agency. The agency is advising all anglers, whether they practice their sport from the sea, on rocks or shore, to carry and wear a lifejacket when near the sea. Richard Jackson, [...]


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		<title>Help the emergency services</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by storing the number of a emergency contact person(s) under the name &#8216;ICE&#8217; ( In Case Of Emergency). Many anglers carry mobile phones with names &#38; numbers stored in its memory but who should be called  if they were to be involved in an accident or be taken ill.? Yes, there are hundreds of numbers [...]


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		<title>Amendments to Article 47</title>
		<link>http://www.ssacn.org/amendments-to-article-47</link>
		<comments>http://www.ssacn.org/amendments-to-article-47#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No doubt thanks to the level of feeling, political pressure and maybe even a bit of common sense as the EU admit “Recreational Fishing has exploded in the media and dominates all discussion on the proposal. What the Commission is proposing is not clear from the text.” Consequently several amendments to Article 47 are expected, [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.ssacn.org/sea-angling-and-the-cfp-update' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Sea Angling and the CFP &#8211; update'>Sea Angling and the CFP &#8211; update</a></li>
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		<title>IFG Coordinator jobs</title>
		<link>http://www.ssacn.org/ifg-coordinator-jobs</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vacancies for IFG (Inshore Fisheries Group) Coordinators in the Clyde, South East and Outer Hebrides have been announced by Seafish but the salaries of up to £31,680 will be paid by the Scottish government. According to the job spec IFGs aim to improve the management of Scotland’s inshore fisheries out to 6nm and to give [...]


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		<title>Lamlash Bay NTZ</title>
		<link>http://www.ssacn.org/lamlash-bay-ntz</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Scottish Government has issued a Statutory Instrument (SSI) which prohibits all fishing for sea fish within Lamlash Bay, Isle of Arran, regardless of the method of fishing employed. This constitutes a &#8216;No Take Zone&#8217;. The SSI No 317/2008 is entitled The Inshore Fishing (Prohibition on Fishing) (Lamlash Bay) (Scotland) Order 2008 can be found [...]


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		<title>UK says no to MCZ targets</title>
		<link>http://www.ssacn.org/uk-says-no-to-mcz-targets</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a recent meeting with industry representatives officials stated the Government would proceed carefully and thoroughly and indicated that there was no question of the UK Government agreeing to a target of 30% or any other arbitrary percentage of the marine environment to be set aside as marine protection zones. The powers to establish MCZs [...]


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		<title>Holyrood on Article 47</title>
		<link>http://www.ssacn.org/holyrood-on-article-47</link>
		<comments>http://www.ssacn.org/holyrood-on-article-47#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asked about Article 47 a Scottish Government spokesman said: “We have made it clear that we believe that the Common Fisheries Policy will never provide the ideal means of managing Scottish fisheries – and the last thing we need is further complications. We should be trying to loosen the CFP’s grip on our fisheries, not [...]


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		<title>EU to extend RACs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We also need to ensure greater involvement by all stakeholders, not just fishermen, in decision-making. The Regional Advisory Councils are one of the successes of the 2002 reform, and we need to develop them further in order to ensure that our stakeholder consultation is truly a broad-based exercise. &#8221; &#8211; said Mr Borg in a [...]


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		<title>Halt biodiversity decline</title>
		<link>http://www.ssacn.org/halt-biodiversity-decline</link>
		<comments>http://www.ssacn.org/halt-biodiversity-decline#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[says a re-launched EU parliamentary intergroup which will be named the ‘climate change and biodiversity’ group in an effort to “re-energise” EU efforts to address the issue. MEP Struan Stevenson said &#8220;EU targets aimed at curbing biodiversity loss by the year 2010 were unlikely to be met&#8221;, and continued “What is needed in a new [...]


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