Marine Scotland has been accused of allowing “an environmental disaster” by mismanaging fishing and refusing to exclude trawlers from inshore areas where fishermen catch prawns. A report, due to be…
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Calls to ban trawling in protected areas
Thursday, January 7th, 2021A report from the Marine Conservation Society has found that bottom-trawling or dredging are taking place in 98 per cent of offshore marine protected areas (MPAs) around the country. Bottom-towed…
Creel fishers lodge judicial review
Tuesday, August 18th, 2020Creel fishermen have taken the Scottish Government to court over access to island waters. Alistair Sinclair, national co-ordinator of the Scottish Creel Fishermen’s Federation (SCFF), says the body is acting…
Create a coastal blue belt, scientists urge
Tuesday, July 21st, 2020Study 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…
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…
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