Building social capital – relationships, trust and communication – can deliver outstanding results – see the Lofoten example below. The Berwickshire and Northumberland Marine Nature Partnership is a collaboration of twenty Scottish and English organisations focussed on managing our local inshore waters. The original partnership was established 16 years ago to proactively manage the Berwickshire […]
Support the Shark Trust No limits Crowdfunder project This project is setting out to put limits on the catch of sharks in European waters. The European Commission today (15/4/16) adopted a report on the implementation of the EU’s shark finning Regulation. Based on information provided by EU Member States, the report concludes that no systematic […]
There are a number of worrying trends in the breeding success of northern seabirds, including puffins and kittiwakes that may well be linked to major changes in the marine food webs. Three articles highlighting the changes to northern seas and the impact on seabirds 1. They are called seabirds for a reason – Adam Nicholson Save […]
Save Scottish Seas: Most eyes are on the UK’s EU ‘in-or-out’ referendum, but meanwhile our MEPs are considering important fisheries decisions; namely whether we act now to place urgent limits on deep sea bottom-trawling. Over the next few weeks (or possibly months), European representatives should – after years of negotiation and political delays – decide how best to […]
JNCC Report: Conceptual Ecological Modelling of Shallow Sublittoral Mixed Sediment Habitats to Inform Indicator Selection Report 586 MESL report for JNCC (2016) Alexander, D., Coates, D.A., Herbert, R.J.H. & Crowley, S.J. This project is focused on producing a series of Conceptual Ecological Models (CEMs) for the marine habitat ‘Shallow Sublittoral Mixed Sediments’. Conceptual Ecological Models […]
This article has some wonderful quotes ‘managing cod is not rocket science, it is more complicated than that’, ‘try doing that in the EU’ (i.e. managing a fishery), ‘Commercial fishermen used to be at loggerheads with scientists demanding stock control…. But we have established a level of trust … as soon as they recognise our […]
The River Restoration Centre River Prize projects illustrate a wide range of approaches including partnership, multiple benefits, catchment scale, urban and innovation projects. The 2016 UK River Prize & Nigel Holmes Trophy The 2016 Winners are the River Eden, Derwent and Kent! Find out more >> 2016 UK River Prize Finalists River Aller and Horner Water Catchment-scale […]
Guardian: World governments vow to end fossil fuel era at UN climate signing ceremony: Representatives of more than 170 countries endorse Paris agreement to cut carbon emissions, with France’s president saying: ‘There is no turning back’. Just as well because the threat of environmental damage to the marine environment is immediate and evidence amassing at […]