Sand, Sea and Sewage A Marinet Report which investigates and records the levels of sewage pollution which affect English sea bathing waters today. The Report is in two parts. Part One examines the condition of English sea bathing waters since the introduction of the new EU Bathing Water Directive 2006/7/EC in 2015. It examines the […]
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- Sand, Sea and Sewage
- Reply received from Historic England to about Goodwin Sands magnetometer survey, June 2017
- Marinet summarises Archaeological Record for Goodwin Sands ahead of magnetometer report
- Bradwell decides against further FED discharges into the Blackwater Estuary MCZ – with Marinet Comment
- Marinet writes to Historic England about Goodwin Sands magnetometer survey, June 2017
- Pelamis Wave Power: Company insolvent, but technology continues
- Env. Agency decides to approve Bradwell FED waste discharges into Blackwater Estuary, Essex
- New Economics Foundation publishes “Fish Dependence, 2017”
- NEF reports EU still over-fishing in 2017
- Digest of the Oceana Report, Nov. 2016 : Exploitation and Status of European Stocks
- Details of Marinet’s legal arguments to prevent the dredging of Goodwin Sands for aggregate
- East Dorset FOE’s response to MMO’s draft South Marine Plan, February 2017
- Marinet’s submission to the Welsh Assembly, February 2017, concerning the management of Welsh MPAs
- Marinet submission to EA on Bradwell FED permit applications
- MMO approves aggregate dredging in the Kingmere MCZ, West Sussex (Area 453 and 488)
- Marinet makes second submission to the MMO over plan to dredge Goodwin Sands rMCZ
- Marinet evidence to Environment Audit Committee’s Inquiry into UK delivery of MPAs
- Marinet publishes proposals for the UK fishing industry following Brexit
- Greenpeace film and report exposes unsustainable nature of big fishing vessels in the UK
- ICES report on condition of Sea Bass stock, June 2016
Reply received from Historic England, 26th June 2017, regarding the proposed dredging project within the Goodwin Sands. Area 521 Historic England response to 04 and 06 June letters 26 June 17
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We provide here the Report written by Marinet, July 2017, which summarises the known archaeological record relating to the South Goodwin Sands and the issues involving this record due to the Dover Harbour Board’s aggregate dredging application.
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The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced 21st June 2017: “The site of the former Bradwell nuclear power station [Blackwater estuary, Essex] has now successfully dealt with all of its Fuel Element Debris (FED) waste mdash; a major source of intermediate level radioactive waste at the Essex site. “This is an important step towards the site’s planned closure, […]
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We provide here links to two letters sent to Historic England, 4th and 6th June 2017, expressing observations and reservations about the magnetometer survey being conducted by the Dover Harbour Board in connection with its application to the MMO for permission to dredge the Goodwin Sands for aggregate. Letters to Historic England (pdf format) 4th […]
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We provide here the link to an item published by Furnacecompare.com, 2nd June 2017, which records the history of the Pelamis Waver Power project, along with its current ongoing commercial development.
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The Environment Agency, as licensing authority, has granted consent in March 2017 for waste nitrate, heavy metal and radioactive material — arising from the treatment by dissolution in nitric acid with associated recovery of radionuclides of the fuel element debris arising from the historic operation of the now decommissioned Bradwell nuclear power plant – to […]
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We provide here a copy of the New Economics Foundation 2017 report which records and analyses the EU’s fishing industry’s ability to deliver fish food security from our own fish stocks.
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We provide here a copy of the New Economics Foundation report, Landing the Blame, Overfishing in the Atlantic 2017 which records how over-fishing is persisting within the framework of the Common Fisheries Policy. Click here to read it.
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We provide here a digest of the essential features of the Oceana Report relating to the Greater North Sea, the Celtic Seas and Rockall, and European stocks overall. We also provide a link to the original report. 1 http://eu.oceana.org/sites/default/files/stockstatusreport_newversion_0.pdf
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We provide here the text of the legal arguments presented by Marinet on 22nd February 2017 to, firstly, the Ministry of Defence; secondly, to the Marine Management Organisation; and thirdly, to the Dover Harbour Board. Area 521 Bindmans to MOD final 22 Feb 17 Area 521 Bindmans to MMO final 22 Feb 17 Area […]
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We provide here the full text of East Dorset Friends of the Earth’s response to the MMO in connection its consultation on draft proposal for the South Marine Plan, February 2017.
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We provide here the full text of the Marinet submission Click here to view as a pdf
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We provide here the comments of Marinet, 4th December 2016, to the Environment Agency concerning the application by Magnox Limited to be allowed to discharge waste radioactivity, heavy metals and nitrates into the Blackwater estuary from Bradwell nuclear power station (decommissioned). These wastes arise from the Fuel Element Debris (FED) process whereby metals parts and […]
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The MMO has advised Marinet in a letter dated 14th November 2016 of its decision to allow aggregate dredging in the Kingmere MCZMCZ Marine Conservation Zone, West Sussex (Area 453 and 488), and in this letter the MMO offers its assessment of Marinet’s concerns submitted to the MMO in January 2016 https://www.marinet.org.uk/campaign-article/aggregate-companies-seek-licence-from-mmo-to-dredge-kingmere-mcz. This letter from […]
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We provide here the full text of a second submission by Marinet, dated 7th November 2016, to the Marine Management Organisation about the Dover Harbour Board’s application to dredge the Goodwin Sands rMCZ for sand to be used as construction material in the redevelopment of the Port of Dover’s western docks.
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We provide here the text of the evidence submitted, October 2016, by Marinet with regard to the delivery of Marine Conservation Zones by the UK Government.
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We provide here proposals published by Marinet, October 2016, which set out the principles that need to govern reform of UK fisheries management following Brexit. These proposals are grounded in an analysis, also produced here, of the seriously depleted nature of the fish stocks in UK seas and the reasons for this.
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We provide here a short film and an investigative report titled A Wolf in Shrimps Clothing, produced January/February 2013 by Greenpeace. This material examines the unequal relationship between big business and big fishing vessels versus small fishermen and their traditional practices. It also examines the role of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations in the […]
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We provide here the text of the ICES report, published June 2016, into the condition of the European Sea Bass stock. Commercial fishing has taken the stock below the level for a safe spawning stock biomassbiomass The amount of living matter. This is therefore a different measure to numbers of organisms. So, for example, there […]
