The Guardian reports, 8th June 2012: “Cod could be in for a revival at the fish counter as stocks recover after being overfished for decades. Eating cod has been regarded as close to a crime by environmentalists, and consumers have been urged to opt for alternatives such as gurnard. But a survey by the Marine [...]
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- MSC say sustainable fishing of North Sea cod could soon recommence, but can it?
- Parliamentary Briefing favours incremental approach to tidal power
- New study suggests the modern ecological structure of fisheries is dangerously unstable
- Turtle Conservation in the Mediterranean celebrates 25 years of action
- Greenpeace apprehensive and “disappointed “about EU negotiations on CFP Reform
- Happisburgh still eroding
- New DVD telling the story of the North Norfolk Fishing industry
- Hard-to-fish areas in Celtic Sea are a refuge for skate and rays
- They said it, not us!
- NFFO believes “regionalisation” is the key CFP reform agreed at Council of Ministers meeting
- EU Fisheries Ministers agree to a partial discards ban, and to quotas based on MSY but with no dates
- Australia’s Great Barrier Reef could be on the “danger list”
- Two-thirds of all beach litter is made of plastic
- UK Fisheries Minister identifies 3 key principles for CFP reform
- Latest Newsletter Available
- Local people plan DIY coastal defences for Hemsby, Norfolk
- SeaOrbiter to explore the oceans
- New Blog Entry
- Emergency measures to protect erosion-hit Hopton cliffs
- Concrete plan to save Hemsby from the Sea
A tidal energy barrage across the Severn Estuary could produce up to 5% of the UK’s electricity demand. However predicting environmental impacts of such a Barrage suffers from a lack of real data for computer modelling and a lack of similar estuaries and similar barrages to check modelling. The Eastern Scheldt provides some useful information [...]
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C.O.A.S.T. report on a new study from the University of York: “It is well documented that the increase in demand for fish, combined with advances in fishing technology has led to the decline of many large bodied finfish fisheries around the world. As a result, catches of shellfish such as prawns, scallops and lobsters have [...]
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Medasset (Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles) reports in its Newsletter, No.11, February 2013: “It all began in 1983, five years before MEDASSET was officially founded, when I first realised that sea turtles were nesting in Laganas Bay on the island of Zakynthos until I started a campaign for their protection. Few had heard [...]
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Greenpeace reports, 15th May 2013, Brussels: “Another marathon session of negotiations on the reform of EU legislation on fisheries has ended in disappointment, said Greenpeace. The ministers have been meeting in Council since Monday to revise their position on the main points of the reform before going into final negotiations with the European Parliament. Commenting [...]
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As the main focus has been on the recent Winterton to Hopton mass erosion, we haven’t had much mention of stricken Happisburgh lately. That has a double whammy, inasmuch as not only do they continue to suffer erosion of the beach sand allowing the waves to reach the cliff base, but also ‘slippery’ cliffs. The [...]
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Starring the famous Cromer Crab Cancer Paguris, the story of the fishing industry in north Norfolk from Domesday to the present day is featured in a new DVD release. It uses historic photos, animations, interviews and archive footage to update a book first printed 25 years ago. The final sequence using a waterproof camera gives [...]
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Marine scientists working in the Celtic Sea have discovered a natural refuge for the critically endangered flapper skate. Many elasmobranchs (sharks, rays and skates) are highly vulnerable to over-fishing, but a new paper in the open access journal PLOS ONE shows that small areas of the seabed that experience below-average fishing intensity can sustain greater [...]
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A short quote in respect of Fracking from Water Briefing Newsletter of May 2013. “Finally, with shale gas extraction on the agenda in the UK, there will be opportunities in water management and wastewater treatment” We couldn’t have better put it ourselves. However, let’s see what the seismologists have to say.
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The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO) comments, 15th May: “The agreement reached by the Council of Ministers in Brussels in the early hours of 15th May represents an important staging post on the tortuous passage to CFP reform. The agreed form of words gives the Irish Presidency a mandate to finalise negotiations with the [...]
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EU Fisheries Ministers agree to a partial discards ban, and to quotas based on MSY but with no dates
Fisheries Ministers from across Europe have come to an agreement on 14th May on a sweeping reform of fisheries policies, but fell short of the most ambitious changes that green campaigners had demanded. They agreed to ban the wasteful practice of discarding healthy fish at sea, but most of the ban will be phased in [...]
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It might be regarded as some sort of sick joke that the Great Barrier Reef happens to nestle beside the heart of Australia’s fossil fuel export boom. When the coal ships leave the Queensland ports, the two become one as the captains make passage through the 2300 kilometre/1430 mile-long reef – the world’s largest. Now [...]
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The number of cigarette butts littering UK beaches doubled last year, while other rubbish from smoking including lighters and packets increased by 90%, according to a survey that raises that concerns anti-littering campaigns are failing to make an impact. Plastic rubbish including sweet and lolly wrappers also rose by 3% in 2012 compared with 2011, [...]
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Richard Benyon, the UK’s fisheries minister, has vowed to drive “ambitious and radical reform” of the EU’s common fisheries policy at a key meeting in Brussels, week commencing 13th May. In an interview with the Guardian, he listed three main goals for the UK – to ensure that a new proposal for fishing to be [...]
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Newsletter for May 2013 now on the website.
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Mike King, Marinet member, reports in his latest newsletter, titled: “Progress of the Campaign to save the Newport and Hemsby to Winterton Norfolk Valleys Area of Natural Beauty (ANOB) from Progressive Coastal Erosion.” “On 24th April 2013 a packed meeting at Hemsby (Norfolk) village hall on the severe erosion of Hemsby beach and sand dune [...]
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The SeaOrbiter is an ocean going research vessel. Its launch is expected some time in 2013. Similar to a space ship, the SeaOrbiter is planned to allow scientists and others a residential yet mobile research station positioned under the oceans’ surface. The station will have laboratories, workshops, living quarters and a pressurized deck to support [...]
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We have a new entry in the David Levy Blog – Thinking about what “accountability” means – May 2013.
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In the hope of securing the cliffs at Hopton-on-Sea a second shipment of Norwegian rocks is being placed in front of 200m of the cliff to strengthen areas where the revetment’s sheet piling has failed. Each rock weighs in at between three and six tonnes. In all there will be a total of 9,000 tonnes [...]
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Hemsby beach has been subject to intermittent erosion ever since large scale offshore dredging has been ongoing since the 1970′s at the rate of over 10,000,000 metric tonnes of take every year. Over seventy bungalows have already been lost along with 150 metres of fronting dune over the last 20 years. Prior to dredging, [...]
