15 Mar 2021
Scottish Government ‘New measures to help conservation efforts. The critically endangered flapper skate is to gain further protection following the urgent designation of a new Marine Protected Area (MPA) within the Inner Sound of Skye. The site will protect a nationally important flapper skate egg nursery area, which is the largest of its kind to […]
23 Feb 2021
Politico ‘Tough new British rules against damaging fishing practices are putting pressure on the EU British Brexit backers have long argued quitting the EU could make the U.K. greener — now there’s some evidence to back that up. It comes from a British move to strengthen environmental rules at sea, something that could force the EU to […]
17 Nov 2020
Chief Islander James Glass reflects on the implementation of Tristan’s Marine Protection Zone – announced on Friday 13th November 2020 Situated in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, on the edge of the Roaring Forties, lies a group of islands unknown to most of the world’s population. Tristan da Cunha covers a small land […]
29 Sep 2020
The Government response to Greenpeace’s action at Dogger Bank – Defra Posted by: Defra Press Office Defra – The Government’s response to the Greenpeace Action 23rd September 2020 ‘There is coverage in The Times, Daily Telegraph, The Herald and Channel 4 News (00:48) of the ongoing Greenpeace action at Dogger Bank Special Area of Conservation (SAC), where yesterday Greenpeace […]
07 Jul 2020
Assessing fish spillover from marine protected areas and its drivers: A meta‐analysis Manfredi Di Lorenzo and colleagues First published: 14 June 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12469 Assessing spillover from MPAs a meta-analysis Abstract Overfishing may seriously impact fish populations and ecosystems. Marine protected areas (MPAs) are key tools for biodiversity conservation and fisheries management, yet the fisheries benefits […]
19 May 2020
To mark 15 years of expeditions to carry out scientific research on less known and deep waters, and gathering data on threatened habitats and species often protected under European laws, the NGO Oceana has published a report presenting proposals for 15 Marine Protected Areas in biodiversity hot spots in European waters. It includes a site […]
11 Feb 2020
A new report in the journal Nature by Lilian Lieber in a collaboration with many other has made some key breakthroughs in our understanding of basking shark populations and their migrations. BBC ‘Basking sharks travel migratory routes in groups of extended family, a new study led by Scottish scientists has suggested. Large groups of the […]
09 Nov 2019
A new paper from jean Luc Solandt and co-workers Managing marine protected areas in Europe: moving from ‘feature-based’ to ‘whole-site’ management of sites JLS, MCS ‘Defra has just announced that the effective ‘Fisheries Management in MPAs’ Implementation Group (that emerged from the ‘Revised Approach’) is to be stopped, and replaced with ‘bilateral meetings’. This lessens […]
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