14 Dec 2015
MCS: Placing proportionate limits on bottom-towed fishing could help boost long-term jobs in fragile rural communities, as well as protect the environment, contend a coalition of Scottish charities. The Scottish Government is due to announce measures for managing fishing in several Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) later this month. Scottish Environment LINK’s Marine Taskforce has written […]
07 Dec 2015
At the Portsmouth Magistrates Court, on Tuesday 1st December 2015, Paul Lambert, 40, of East Cowes on the Isle of Wight, pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £4300 for retaining whelks below the minimum legal size on board his fishing vessel Katie P176, contrary to European Fisheries Technical Conservation Measures […]
16 Nov 2015
The owner/skipper of a fishing vessel, who pleaded guilty to not showing navigation lights, employing crew who’d not completed safety training and to using it while it was unregistered, has been sent to prison. At a hearing (10th November) at Southampton Crown Court, the owner/skipper Michael Roy Stimson received a custodial sentence totalling four months. He […]
04 Sep 2015
You need not look far to find the world’s “super predator,” a term used by UVic scientists to describe how human dominance has bred an unrelenting predacious global culture that threatens nature’s balance. Research published in the 21 August 2015 edition of the journal Science by a team led by Dr. Chris Darimont, the Hakai-Raincoast […]
30 Jul 2015
28 Apr 2015
Greenpeace 24 April, 2015: ‘A full judicial review into the government’s decision to continue to give nearly the entire UK fishing quota to domestic industrial and foreign corporations, at the expense of local, low impact fishermen, has been given the green light by the High Court. Justice Andrews granted permission to Greenpeace to argue that […]
28 Apr 2015
Birdlife International: ‘ After years of negotiation, the Dogger Bank, a unique and massive complex of Natura 2000 sites belonging to the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands will finally get its needed fisheries management plan.’ Beam trawls and other bottom gear will be excluded from about a third of the Dogger Bank. This is a […]
14 Apr 2015
In response to our April 14th mailing A Defra spokesperson said: “We are aware of concerns about a short term reduction in enforcement powers available to Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (IFCA) officers. The Marine Management Organisation is warranting a number of IFCA officers with relevant powers so that they can continue to operate as […]
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