22 Sep 2022
The Environment Agency and Northumberland Rivers Trust have relocated hundreds of native crayfish from the abundant populations found in the River Wansbeck in Morpeth, to six refuge sites in North Northumberland. These refuges, known as ‘Ark’ sites, give the crayfish new safe places to breed and build their numbers, ensuring several populations remain if disaster strikes […]
22 Sep 2022
The campaigning organisation, River Action, has written to the new UK Prime Minister and Environment Secretary to congratulate them on their appointments and to urge them to take action to address the state of UK’s rivers. Last week we reported on the Environment Minister’s first day in office and his demand for water company chief […]
20 Sep 2022
A special collection of scientific papers featured in the Journal Deep Sea Research Part II, has been dedicated to the South Sandwich Islands. Scientists from the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) collaborated on several of the papers with researchers from around the world to shed light on and provide new insights into this unique environment. […]
20 Sep 2022
More than 200 scientists have signed a statement calling for the prohibition of bottom trawling, and other industrial activities, in the EU’s Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). The statement was led by Enric Sala, of National Geographic Pristine Seas, and the press statement follows here: September 12, 2022 – More than 200 scientists have signed a statement calling for […]
20 Sep 2022
The European Commission decided on Thursday 15 September to close parts of the Northeast Atlantic to bottom fishing. The measure is aimed at protecting vulnerable ecosystems in the deep sea, the Brussels Times reported. The Commission said it was closing “87 sensitive zones” off the coasts of France, Portugal, Spain and Ireland for bottom fishing […]
20 Sep 2022
The Cornish Fish Producers’ Organisation (CFPO) has released a statement regarding Greenpeace UK’s boulder-dumping in the South West Deeps (East) Marine Conservation Zone. Greenpeace UK published a piece ‘5 reasons why Greenpeace built another underwater boulder barrier’ and the CFPO have responded in a statement “Whilst not wanting to overly engage in the headline-grabbing media campaign, the […]
20 Sep 2022
New research has been published in Marine Policy which assessed the extent to which the fishing activity of vessels using bottom-contacting mobile gears (trawls, dredges and demersal seines) were impacted by the construction of 12 offshore windfarms in the UK EEZ. The paper, ‘Windfarms, fishing and benthic recovery: Overlaps, risks and opportunities’, by Frith Dunkley and Jean-Luc […]
15 Sep 2022
The way rivers function is significantly affected by how much sediment they transport and deposit. River sediment — mostly sand, silt and clay — plays a critical ecological role, as it provides habitat for organisms downstream and in estuaries. It is also important for human life, resupplying nutrients to agricultural soils in floodplains and buffering […]
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