04 May 2021
Fisheries and Seafood Scheme MMO & Defra ‘The Fisheries and Seafood Scheme will provide financial support for projects in England that secure sustainable growth across the catching, processing and aquaculture sectors, and that protect and enhance the marine environment. Aims of the Fisheries and Seafood Scheme The Fisheries and Seafood Scheme will provide financial assistance […]
04 May 2021
Will this be a ‘Marine Super Year?’ Back in January the Government declared that they would use the UK’s COP presidency to make 2021 a ‘Marine Super Year’. Four months on, and it could be argued that this honorific has already been achieved – albeit not quite in the way the Government intended. The popularity […]
27 Apr 2021
Untreated waste regularly flows into waters across England and Wales. Is it time to radically rethink sewage – or do away with sewers altogether asks the Guardian. Raw sewage in British waters is more than simply the horror of swimming amid human waste but also about the health and environmental threats of microplastics, endocrine disruptors, phosphorus, antibiotic-resistant […]
27 Apr 2021
A comprehensive Natural England report on the impact of the nation’s landscape on carbon storage and sequestration, has found that peatlands and native woodlands are habitats which have the greatest capacity to store carbon, but that many others, including coastal and marine habitats such as saltmarsh and seagrass meadows have a significant role to play a […]
27 Apr 2021
Canadian researchers have found find that the population of bowhead whales which overwinters in the Amundsen Gulf and Eastern Beaufort Sea did not make the 6,000km round trip in 2018-2019. Click here. Bowheads are the only baleen whale endemic to the Arctic. They live near the polar ice edge for much of the year and […]
27 Apr 2021
Scottish-based developers of the world’s leading floating tidal turbine technology, Orbital Marine Power Ltd, successfully launched its 2MW tidal turbine, the Orbital O2, from the Port of Dundee on 22 April. It will now be towed to the Orkney Islands where it will undergo commissioning before being connected to the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) where […]
27 Apr 2021
Multiple datasets spanning a 16-year period have shown an increase in bluefin tuna, which arrive into the waters of the Celtic Seas and off SW England, the Scilly Isles, and NW Ireland to feed in late summer and autumn according to research led by Cefas and the University of Exeter, published in ICES Journal of […]
27 Apr 2021
Information from established beach litter protocols is insufficient to implement targeted, preventive management measures. Complementary methodologies, named “Beach litter Deep Dives”, have been developed to get a better understanding of the sources of and behaviour behind littering. Deep dives involve identifying the type, country of provenance and age of household, food, oil and chemical containers. […]
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