16 May 2017
PML ‘If you haven’t already done so, by the end of May, please take time to complete a questionnaire for a survey that is being conducted by researchers at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) to assess the evidence on the economic benefits of marine protected areas and other spatial protection measures? The survey can be accessed […]
25 Apr 2017
EAC ‘Marine Protected Areas Revisited’ The Marine Protected Areas Revisited report published today, found MPAs are not being effectively managed, and the Government needs to do more to protect vulnerable marine habitats, features and species once a site is designated as an MPA. The Committee also expressed concern that the Government had moved the goal […]
03 Apr 2017
Links between seabed type and quality are closely related to the abundance and size of young commercially fished species such as cod, haddock and whiting. A new study, led by the University of Glasgow and published today in Marine Ecology Progress Series, examines the abundance and size of these three types of commercial fish over the course of […]
28 Mar 2017
New Scientist By Andy Coghlan What’s good for farmed salmon may not be for natural ecosystems. Small fish called wrasse painlessly peck sea lice from the skin of farmed salmon, enabling salmon farmers rely less on powerful pesticides that can harm other marine life. But there’s a catch: the wrasse are fished from the wild, and researchers have […]
22 Feb 2017
Common skate and spurdog tracking project World’s largest skate and small shark followed in new west coast tagging study Downloads High-tech tracking devices are helping scientists to protect two of Scotland’s most endangered fish species in a west coast Marine Protected Area (MPA). Marine biologists from Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) and Marine Scotland Science (MSS) […]
06 Feb 2017
MPA Welsh Inquiry – Climate change, Environment & Rural Affairs Committee Evidence from Sue Gubbay, Lynda Warren, Steve Fletcher & Tim Glover This session looks at No take zones, the percentage of the Wales coast covered by these and voluntary MPAs. Click here to watch the video The Climate change, Environment & Rural Affairs Committee is carrying […]
14 Jan 2017
Dialectics of nature: The emergence of policy on the management of commercial fisheries in English European Marine Sites Robert Clark, John Humphreys, Jean-Luc Solandt, and Catherine Weller European Marine Sites (EMS), designated under either the Habitats or Birds Directives, protect the biodiversity of the European Union (EU) and contribute to the implementation of the 1992 UN Convention on […]
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 […]
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