We provide here the Marinet submission, July 2016, to the Marine Management Organisation in respect of the application by the Dover Harbour Board to dredge 2.5 million m3 of sand from South Goodwin Sands in order to provide infill material for its Western Docks Revival Scheme. The Goodwin Sands is a recommended Marine Conservation Zone […]
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- Marinet submission to MMO over aggregate dredging application at Goodwin Sands
- Is the Blackwater Estuary MCZ being assessed for the impact of discharges from the decommissioning of Bradwell nuclear power station ?
- Fishing levels around the world are seriously under recorded
- Aggregate Companies seek licence from MMO to dredge Kingmere MCZ
- ‘Marinet Special’ on Alternative Aggregate to Marine Sand : Interim Progress Report
- EU Fishing in Crisis : Politicians are wilfully breaking the law
- Deep Sea Mining : the nature of the resource, and the threat to ocean integrity
- Ocean Acidification explained in RSC lecture
- Plastic now found widely on the ocean seabed at elevated concentrations relative to seawater
- Marinet asks Environment Agency whether Bradwell’s nuclear discharges are legal
- The Humanitarian side of the Shoreline Management Plan
- Marine Aggregate Extraction – The Need to Dredge : Fact or Fiction?
- Radioactivity from Bradwell nuclear power station challenges the Blackwater MCZ
- Ocean Acidification and its impact on Marine Plankton : is there a planetary emergency?
- “Ocean Drifters” : The Importance of Plankton – video
- Ocean Acidification – Revolution World Issue
- GM research produces plant containing omega-3 fish oils
- IUCN Report on European Red List of Marine Species, June 2015
- Marine Conservation Society launches new Beach Guide
- Different methods of commercial fishing examined and explained
We provide here a chronological record (October 2015 to February 2016) of the enquiries made by Marinet to the Environment Agency concerning the issuing of a discharge licence to Magnox Limited for waste radioactivity, heavy metals and nitrates arising from the dissolution of fuel element debris during the decommissioning of Bradwell nuclear power station, Essex. […]
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We provide here a copy of Catch reconstructions reveal that global marine fisheries catches are higher than reported and declining by Daniel Pauly and Dirk Zeller, January 2016. Publisher: Nature Communications. For viewing online, see http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160119/ncomms10244/full/ncomms10244.html
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We provide here the submission which Marinet has made, 8th January 2016, to Her Majesty’s Government’s Marine Management Organisation in respect of the licence application by Cemex UK and Tarmac Marine to be allowed to extract (dredge) sand and gravel from the seabed over the next 15 years from two sites, Area 453 and 488, […]
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We provide here an Interim Progress Report, December 2015, on the reception given by the industry, government, the statutory nature conservation agency, and the licence regulator to Marinet’s proposal to substitute ‘manufactured sand’ from waste quarry rocks for sand dredged from the seabed. Marine Aggregate Extraction — The Need to Dredge : Fact or Fiction? […]
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We provide here a series of reports, principally written by the New Economics Foundation, which demonstrate that in the years since CFP reform in 2014 (i.e. in 2015 and 2016) EU Fisheries Ministers have been setting catch levels for many of the commercial fish stocks in the Baltic and Northern European seas which are clearly […]
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We provide here the text of an article written for The Huffington Post, 20th October 2015 by Prof. Richard Steiner (formerly University of Alaska, now Oasis Earth), the opening of which reads: “Adding to concerns about the disastrous decline in ocean ecosystems, now there is another emerging threat — deep sea mining. While shallow water […]
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In a lecture given by Dr Helen Findlay , October 2015, at the Royal Society of Chemistry the subject of ocean acidification is explained in detail. Ocean acidification is increasingly a term used by scientists, and reported in the media, as one of the big issues of concern for our planet: “the evil twin of […]
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We provide here a link to a Latest News item which reports on a study which shows that waste plastic is now being found at high concentrations relative to seawater in the sediments on the seabed, and that the ocean seabed is becoming a “sink”. The long-term toxicology consequences are unknown.
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We provide here the text of a letter, 5th October 2015, from Marinet to the Chairman of the Environment Agency’s Board, which asks the Agency whether the nuclear waste discharges which it is permitting from the Bradwell nuclear power station, located on the Blackwater estuary in Essex, are legal. Download letter as a pdf file. […]
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The Guardian published a remarkable Heart-warming and emotive story written by Patrick Backham that shows the impact of the Shoreline Management Plan upon just two of those victims who have put up a valiant fight to to try to save their homes from the sea, and the amazing level of ruthless authoritarian bureaucracy employed by […]
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MARINE AGGREGATE EXTRACTION THE NEED TO DREDGE : FACT OR FICTION? September 2015 View article as a pdf document 1 BACKGROUND Sand is a critical component in the manufacture of concrete which is, of course, a vital building material in the construction industry. The United Kingdom is almost the only developed economy which is still […]
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We provide here the text of the submission made by Marinet, 18th September 2015, to the Environment Agency concerning a permit application by Magnox Limited to be granted an extended licence to discharge waste radioactivity into the Blackwater estuary (Blackwater, Colne, Roach and Crouch Estuaries Marine Conservation Zone) which arises from the dissolution treatment process […]
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Marinet Special Is ocean acidification — the reduction in the natural alkalinity of the oceans due to the elevated absorption by the oceans of CO2 released into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels — having an adverse impact on marine planktonplankton Plankton is a generic term for a wide variety of the smallest […]
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We provide here the video titled “Ocean Drifters, a secret world beneath the waves”, a short film about planktonplankton Plankton is a generic term for a wide variety of the smallest yet most important organisms form that drift in our oceans. They can exist in larger forms of more than 20cm as the larval forms […]
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We provide here the link to the University of California YouTube video, Ocean Acidification — Revolution World Issue, published 3rd March 2014 which explains why ocean acidification, caused by CO2 released into the atmosphere from fossil fuel burning which in turn is absorbed from the atmosphere into the oceans, is causing a life survival crisis […]
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We publish here an article from the journal Metabolic Engineering Communications, titled “Field trial evaluation of the accumulation of omega-3 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in transgenic Camelina sativa: Making fish oil substitutes in plants”, published in April 2015.
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We reproduce here the IUCN Report on the status of all marine species in European seas and, in particular, those threatened with extinction. The report also considers the management policies necessary to both restore and maintain the health of all marine species in European seas. European Red List of Marine Fishes (4MB pdf file)
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The Marine Conservation Society reports, May 2015: “A new era in beach information — as beaches get set to meet a stricter bathing guidelines the MCS popular website goes beyond the beach. We’ve published our Good Beach Guide to campaign for better water quality since 1988. We can now reveal that it has achieved many […]
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We provide here 3 articles written by the Safina Center, USA, about different methods of commercial fishing. Trawls — Bulldozers of the Ocean Gillnets — The Entanglers Dredges — The Bottom Scrapers Additional information on fishing gears is also available in The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, 25th Report “Turning the Tide”, (Addressing The […]
