Joe 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…
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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….
North Sea cod at critically low levels, Ices report warns
Monday, July 29th, 2019North Sea cod could soon be coming off the menu for environmentally conscious diners as a decision is expected by the end of this month on whether fish populations are…
Ban on illegal discard of fish at sea is not being enforced
Friday, July 19th, 2019Rules designed to protect fish stocks are failing to have an impact, leaving vessels free to discard unwanted catch, according to a report. Six months after the EU fish discards…
MPA benefits spill into neighbouring waters, study finds
Wednesday, July 17th, 2019A new genetic analysis demonstrates MPA benefits and their spill-over effect, showing that fish leave marine protected areas for fishable waters. When California implemented a string of marine protected areas…
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