24 Feb 2019

Marine Social Sciences Network – sign up to this new network MarSocSci in press – recent and interesting publications from across the community! Taken from their Newsletter: Empowering, Counting and Hearing Women – A Report from the 7th Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries Conference. Find out more here How to use the ocean without using […]

20 Feb 2019

Check out the latest version of CIRIA’s B£ST – a tool for valuing the multiple benefits of blue-green infrastructure. Free to download CIRIA has developed a free tool and guidance, B£ST (Benefits Estimation Tool – valuing the benefits of blue-green infrastructure) for use on PCs. It makes assessing the benefits of blue-green infrastructure easier, without […]

20 Feb 2019

The government launches a series of consultations to overhaul the waste system. Published 18 February 2019 From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, HM Treasury, The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, and The Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP Press release and details of consultations Government launches consultations to overhaul the waste system, cut plastic pollution, and move […]

20 Feb 2019

This research project has developed new guidance to estimate local drainage rates when mapping and modelling surface water flood risk This research project has developed new guidance to estimate local drainage rates when mapping and modelling surface water flood risk. The information can be used to validate and update the national maps, called the Risk […]

20 Feb 2019

Scientific paper published by University of Plymouth reveals impact ‘bio-bead’ spillage in Fal Estuary has had on ecosystem Billions of highly toxic plastic pellets that spilled into an estuary in Cornwall  ten years ago have entered the food chain, scientists have discovered. Bio-beads – small wrinkled or ridged plastic pellets – are used as a base […]

20 Feb 2019

The Environment Agency has published its revised Salmon and Sea Trout Protection Byelaws which came into effect at the start of the year. Environment Agency introduce restrictions on fishing in England in response to the international decline in migratory salmon stocks.   Published 18 December 2018. The Environment Agency’s national salmon and sea trout byelaws, applicable […]