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Commercial fishermen want new MPAs held off for 10 years
Western Isles fishermen yesterday joined calls to the Scottish Government for a 10 year moratorium on any new Marine Protection Areas (MPA) being granted around the islands. Duncan Macinnes of Western Isles Fisheries Association (WIFA) told Rural Affairs minister Richard Lochhead that any more MPAs risked driving younger fishermen and their families away from the […]
Scotland’s National Marine Plan is the first National Marine Plan that has been published in the United Kingdom. As a result, the process by which it was created was a new one. Marine Scotland are now looking at how the Plan was created to find out what went well and what went less well. The […]
The Environment Minister, Aileen McLeod, has announced the publication of a paper which sets out the Government’s response to the independent Wild Fisheries Review and seeks views on a number of broad policy options for a new management system. According to Marine Scotland the paper: Confirms our commitment to reforming management structures and working with […]
Government response to MPA consultation
The Scottish Government has published its response to the consultation. A press release can be found here, the report here (a temporary publication with a full HTML version to follow) Four Draft Marine Conservation Orders have been published: The orders cover four MPAs; Loch Sunart to Sound of Jura MPA (including Firth of Lorn SAC […]
Scottish Marine Plan published
Scotland’s first ever National Marine Plan has been published by Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead. The plan sets out a single statutory planning framework for all marine activity in Scottish waters. This will include policies for the sustainable management of a wide range of marine industries, including those which are long established such as fishing […]
A recent report into the Effects of Codend Mesh Size and Twine Number on Nephrops Selectivity has come up with some amazing conclusions : The selectivity of Nephrops improves as the mesh size increases from 80 to 100 and to 120 mm. Similarly, more juvenile whiting and haddock also escape as the mesh size […]