Study says huge reduction in fishing due to Brexit negotiations and Coronavirus pandemic gives government unique window of opportunity to improve sustainability and profitability of industry, which could include the…
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Scotland fails to protect marine areas
Tuesday, July 7th, 2020Marine conservation areas have failed to protect wildlife from the fishing industry, according to a study by Scottish Government scientists. Researchers from the government’s marine laboratory in Aberdeen have found…
Open Seas: Way off track
Tuesday, June 30th, 2020When something is going wrong, the right thing to do is to fix it early, so the problem doesn’t get bigger. Like a boat with a leak, you head to…
A “muckle” big lobster gives hope for Berwickshire
Friday, March 27th, 2020Joe Richards, BLUE’s Project Officer, takes us on a day out with local crab and lobster fishermen, where landing a “muckle” female lobster gives hope for the lobster population in the Berwickshire…
Brexit opportunity to ban supertrawlers from UK waters
Friday, March 13th, 2020Campaigners say Brexit presents the government with the perfect opportunity to ban industrial fishing boats, also known as “supertrawlers”, from UK seas. Supertrawlers are huge factory ships many times larger…
Campaigners call for Scottish three-mile coastal fishing limit
Monday, January 6th, 2020Marine conservation campaigners have called for trawlers to be banned from fishing within a three-mile limit along Scotland’s shoreline to help depleted fish stocks and seabeds to recover. The Our…
Tonnes of fish discarded as bycatch in the UK, FOI finds
Thursday, October 31st, 2019Several thousand tonnes of dead fish have been illegally discarded as bycatch by trawlers in the North Sea and west coast of Scotland this year, a Freedom of Information request…
Squid trawlers under fire for entering protected waters
Tuesday, October 29th, 2019Squid trawlers have been accused of “sticking two fingers up to the Scottish Government” by entering protected waters off the Berwickshire coast where minke whales and dolphins have been sighted….
Gear conflict over Scottish fishing grounds escalates
Tuesday, October 15th, 2019Scottish ministers have come under fire over their failure to effectively mitigate gear conflict and police the country’s fishing grounds, which is allowing pollution of the seabed, endangering protected marine…
Saving Scotland’s seabed: an example from Norway
Tuesday, October 1st, 2019When Dave Stinson began clam diving off the coast of Norway in 2002 he was struck by the quantity of life he was seeing. Sea cucumbers, flatfish, corals, sea urchins….
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