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Monday, June 18th, 2018
Environment Secretary, Michael Gove, has set out plans to create more than 40 new Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) in English waters. The proposed protections – announced on World Oceans Day...
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Saturday, June 16th, 2018
Graham Saunders © Marine Scotland. All rights reserved. SNH Flickr. Yesterday we continued a serial feature from Open Seas which showcases a few of Scotland’s crucially important seafloor species,...
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Friday, June 15th, 2018
Photographer: Graham Saunders © SNH. All rights reserved. Flickr. Yesterday we began a serial feature from Open Seas which showcases a few of Scotland's crucially important seafloor species, their...
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Thursday, June 14th, 2018
Loch Carron Reef Community © SNH (Flickr) Scotland’s seas are packed full of amazing life – the basking sharks that migrate to our west coast each summer are the...
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Friday, April 6th, 2018
Scottish ministers have come under fire over the state-backed trial of a controversial fishing method that has been banned in Europe for the past 20 years. Until last month razor...
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2018
A huge spawning ground for herring has been discovered near Gairloch in Wester Ross. The ground, thought to be around three square kilometres, was discovered by scallop divers who operate in…
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2018
Kerri Whiteside, Marine Community Support Officer at Fauna & Flora International, explains the relevance of the current Crown Estate Scotland happenings in relation to the environment... The Scottish Crown Estate...
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Thursday, February 15th, 2018
Scotland's sea lochs play an important role in storing carbon which would otherwise contribute to climate change, scientists have suggested. Using samples from Loch Etive, near Oban, researchers calculated that...
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Friday, January 26th, 2018
Plans to reform the Scottish Crown Estate, and give local communities more control of its assets, has been introduced to the Scottish Parliament. The Scottish Crown Estate Bill will establish...
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018
Is fishing with electricity less or more destructive than digging up the seabed with beam trawlers? A recent article at The Conversation discusses the environmental concerns surrounding this topic, which...
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