20 Apr 2021
Seagrasses, mangrove forests, and coastal wetlands store vast amounts of carbon, and their preservation and restoration hold great potential to bank CO2 and keep it out of the atmosphere. But can the blue carbon market avoid the pitfalls that have plagued land-based efforts? In the shallow waters off the shores of Virginia, vast meadows of seagrass have been recreated over the past […]
20 Apr 2021
An investigation by the EU, shared with Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine late last year, concluded that fishery controls were “unsatisfactory”. As a result, the country faces losing tens of thousands of tonnes from its fishing quota and around €40m in funding annually. The investigation reported that, during a four-year period, 33 cases of […]
20 Apr 2021
North Atlantic right whales gave birth over the winter in greater numbers than have seen since 2015, an encouraging sign for researchers who became alarmed three years ago when the critically endangered species produced no known offspring at all. It’s qualified good news though since right whales are still dying — largely from manmade causes — at […]
20 Apr 2021
Ángel León made his name serving innovative seafood, but “then he discovered something in the seagrass that could transform our understanding of the sea itself – as a vast garden” Growing up in southern Spain he paid little attention to the seagrass meadows as he swam near his home in the Bay of Cádiz. Decades later, […]
20 Apr 2021
“What Netflix’s Seaspiracy gets wrong about fishing, explained by a marine biologist.” Daniel Pauly is a marine biologist, fisheries scientist, and professor at the University of British Columbia and a member of the board of directors of Oceana. “I wanted to like Seaspiracy, the recent Netflix documentary that has lots of people talking about the damage […]
20 Apr 2021
About 300 metres of cliff just west of Weymouth collapsed sending an estimated 4,000 tonnes of rock, some in massive chunks “the size of cars”, falling towards the beach below. Southern England has seen a lot of rock and cliff falls during the winter. In February, the chalk cliffs that border much of Kent and Sussex […]
13 Apr 2021
Latest release from the Office of National Statistics presents information on the value of Britain’s marine ecosystems calculated: as a cultural and recreational asset; in the provision of natural resources; and as a regulator of environmental factors such as carbon emissions and water flows to prevent flooding. The overall economic value of the UK’s coastal […]
13 Apr 2021
Conservation measures for non-licensable activities including anchoring and mooring in the Studland Bay Marine Conservation Zone were the subject of a call for evidence from the Marine Management Organisation earlier this year Click here Following a consultation meeting chaired by the Dorset Coast Forum the RYA has published a position statement on the issue. This […]
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