06 Apr 2021
The environment secretary, George Eustice is facing a threat of legal action from shellfish farmers over claims that the government has misled the industry over its post-Brexit arrangements with the EU. Live mussels, cockles, oysters and other shellfish caught in most of the UK’s waters are no longer allowed to enter the EU following Britain […]
06 Apr 2021
Of the 15 National Parks in Britain today, only a few include the coast and none include the sea. Over the past few decades, scientists have understood much more about the value of the ocean and the importance of the marine environment to the health of the planet. Britain has designated fragile places with an […]
06 Apr 2021
Animals and Wildlife (Scotland) Act, included a ban on licensed shooting of seals to protect farmed salmon within aquaculture facilities. Also included within the Act (Section 15) was a requirement on the Scottish Parliament to report on the aquaculture sectors use of Acoustic Deterrent Devices (ADDs). ADDs emit sound with the intention of scaring away […]
06 Apr 2021
Dozens of ventures, most of them government-backed, have been exploring vast areas of the Pacific and Indian Oceans to assess their viability for mining and several companies have developed prototypes of “nodule collectors”, giant robotic machines that would drive over the seabed, gathering the rocks and piping them up to ships at the surface. Claudia […]
06 Apr 2021
Over the last 18 months there has been a rapid increase in interest in seaweed cultivation in Scotland’s inshore waters. Licence applications have been submitted for seaweed farms from Moray Firth to Argyll. To some observers this is the dawn of a sustainable form of aquaculture which could provide much-needed diversification of coastal employment, end […]
30 Mar 2021
Measures to reduce harm from storm overflows to be made law Defra ‘New legal duties on water companies and government will reduce sewage discharged into waterways. Measures to reduce sewage discharges from storm overflows will be put into law, the government confirmed today (Monday 29 March), as part of an ambitious agenda to build back […]
30 Mar 2021
Flood and coastal resilience innovation programme The programme will allocate £150 million of the £200 million to 25 local areas which have now been identified. For some, a local area might be a county, city, town or village. For others, a place could mean a river catchment, a tidal estuary or part of the coast. […]
30 Mar 2021
Guardian: UK ‘flying blind’ on levels of toxic chemicals in tap water. Guardian ‘Government is not testing drinking water for PFAS, which studies have linked to numerous health issues. The UK government is not testing drinking water for a group of toxic manmade chemicals linked to a range of diseases including cancers, while across the […]
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