16 Nov 2016
A new operating plan for Northumbrian Water’s Kielder Reservoir is to give it a role in protecting the Tyne Valley from flooding. Local people will receive an update on work to reduce flood risk in the Tyne Valley at a public meeting next week. Northumbrian Water, local MP Guy Opperman, the Environment Agency and Northumberland […]
16 Nov 2016
Your Fisheries is a catchment initiative developed by The River Trust supported by Environment Agency and Angling Trust. Your Fisheries will provide a common web-based planning system that brings together evidence and knowledge from a range of different sources to inform catchment specific fisheries reports. These reports are intended to represent a range of perspectives […]
14 Nov 2016
Fishing Focus The last Fishing Focus came out in May before the EU referendum. Reading this you might be forgiven for wondering whether it took place at all. It is well worth going through this Fishing Focus in detail because it highlights a range of items from the UK’s position on deep sea fishing to […]
14 Nov 2016
Guardian ‘Carnegie Wave Energy in Cornwall announced that it had secured £9.6m of EU funding that would enable it to connect England’s first commercial-scale wave power project to the grid. A 15MW array at Cornwall’s wave hub centre should now be commissioned in 2018, before commercial deployment in 2021. The local MP and environment minister George Eustice, […]
14 Nov 2016
MMO announces that £800,000 funding has been offered to each of the six Fisheries Local Action Groups under EMFF scheme The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is pleased to announce that £800,000 funding under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) has been offered to each of the six Fisheries Local Action Groups (FLAGs). Cornwall, Dorset and […]
14 Nov 2016
Five articles veering recent developments in marine litter and the solutions The Government respond to the Environmental Audit Committee to the micro-plastics report An interesting insight into Defra’s thinking on micro-plastics and their commitment to act. They also flag a report they are soon to publish on the evidence Chief Medical Officer to investigate impact of […]
14 Nov 2016
The latest report in the series by Plymouth University (dated March 2015) has just popped out of the system about a year after it was completed. This and previous reports provide an interesting assessment of change within an area closed to towed gear. Natural England has published ‘Lyme Bay – A case study: Response of […]
10 Nov 2016
Four reactions to EFRA Committee report Bob Earll The scale of the events: In the face of three major winter storm – flood events in 2012, 2013-14 and 2015-16 – billion pound storms – MPs clearly felt the need to speak out. These events are becoming almost normal and they are characterised not by just […]
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