As pressure on water supplies increase due to population growth, climate change, and the need to protect the environment, wider measures to manage leakage need to be deployed. CIWEM’s new statement outlines the key issues for both customers and the environment: performance measures, economic considerations and new technological developments. Visibility of some leaks and coverage […]

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Sarah Brown ‘Assessing and measuring marine tourism and recreational activities in notoriously difficult. This marine tourism and recreation survey in Scotland being organised on behalf of Marine Scotland is a ground breaking, ambitious survey providing spatial data for the NMPi platform and the emerging marine planning partnerships. So far we have had more than 850 […]

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MCS ‘After evidence emerged of a scallop dredger towing in a protected area, the Scottish Government has put in place an urgent Marine Conservation Order (MCO) to safeguard fragile seabed habitats off Wester Ross in northwest Scotland. From midnight Monday 17th August, all forms of dredging, including for scallops, have been prohibited in the Wester Ross Marine […]

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Scientists from Bangor University, working together with the Welsh Fishermen’s Association, Welsh Government and Natural Resources Wales have published their findings from the world’s largest ever fishing impact study, funded in part by the European Fishery Fund. Cardigan Bay Special Area of Conservation (SAC) was closed to scallop fishing in 2009. Research led by Bangor […]

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Text in post: Citizen science is becoming widely recognised as the report from this Scottish conference reflects. It is also providing invaluable insights into jellyfish ecology and enabling the remarkable strandings of barrel jellyfish to be recorded systematically. Citizen Science – Scottish report on a range of projects Public involvement in monitoring our environment is […]

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