The Firth of Clyde marine ecosystem over 100 years

The history of fisheries management goes back a long way, in her paper Ruth Thurstan has used the Clyde to show how ‘anecdotal’ information can be used to gain a fuller understanding of transformations in the marine environment that have occurred because of our actions.

A thought provoking paper with lots of very useful insights which SSACN have split over several pages.

Brief Bio :

Ruth Thurstan is a PhD student at the University of York, studying historical changes to marine ecosystems around the UK as a result of fishing activities. Government reports and fisheries statistics, alongside anecdotal evidence of past abundance is being used to piece together a picture of how the marine environment has altered over the past 200 years as destructive fishing technologies have increased in use around the UK. This work should provide critical information on historical baselines in the marine environment, and help people to understand the transformations that have occurred because of our actions.

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