30 Mar 2021
The Nearshore Trawling Byelaw Sussex Inshore Fisheries & Conservation Authority is pleased to announce the confirmation of its Nearshore Trawling Byelaw. The byelaw creates a trawling prohibition area along the coastline of Sussex to protect important habitats and to improve our fisheries. The byelaw can be viewed here. The protected area will enhance importance fish feeding, breeding […]
04 Feb 2020
From: Dr Sean Ashworth Deputy Chief Fisheries and Conservation Officer www.sussex-ifca.gov.uk Media Release: Creating Sustainable Fisheries: Sussex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority approves new Nearshore Trawling Byelaw At a meeting of the Sussex Inshore Fisheries & Conservation Authority yesterday, members approved a proposed new Nearshore Trawling Byelaw. The new fisheries management measures are specifically intended […]
02 Nov 2019
Kat Kerlin ECO Magazine How disease, warming waters, and ravenous sea urchins combined to kill the kelp and close the red abalone fishery First the sea stars wasted to nothing. Then the purple urchins took over, eating and eating until the bull kelp forests were gone. The red abalone starved. Their fishery closed. Red sea […]
26 Nov 2018
Bob Earll: The issue of mechanical kelp harvesting in Scotland has become a very high profile controversy over the last six months. The links below highlight the current decision by the Scottish Parliament. Whilst it has been cast as a classic protection versus management issue, the reality is that in many ways it has been […]
03 Sep 2018
Threats and knowledge gaps for ecosystem services provided by kelp forests: a northeast Atlantic perspective Dan A. Smale, Michael T. Burrows, Pippa Moore, Nessa O’Connor, & Stephen J. Hawkins Abstract: Kelp forests along temperate and polar coastlines represent some of most diverse and productive habitats on the Earth. Here, we synthesize information from >60 years […]
28 Aug 2018
It seems that the subtidal rocky environment of Scotland is to be exposed to the destructive processes of kelp harvesting, and unlike a recent Irish proposal at least there is some semblance of environmental management in the form of a scoping report. The ‘consultation’ on this is now closed but I wonder why my Scottish […]
19 Jun 2017
Seán Lynch [seanlynch@umail.ucc.ie] I would like to bring Ireland’s “Our Oceans Wealth” strategy into question i.e. the undebated sale of our natural assets. In Bantry Bay, West Co. Cork which is said to have the cleanest coastal waters in Ireland, a licence has been issued to industrially harvest 1,860 acres of native kelp forest with […]
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