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Diablo Canyon update

Since our last Latest News item entitled  ‘The Marine Wildlife Impact from Seismic Testing’ over 37,000 signatures were placed on the petition that first day to oppose the sonic seismic testing at Diablo Canyon. Furthermore the USA National Resources Defence Council (NRDC) the influential national environmental organisation, has withdrawn its support for the test it had only […]

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Man-made salt marshes not as biodiverse as their natural counterparts.

Man-made English salt marshes are failing to meet European conservation regulations that stipulate they should be as rich in plant life as natural wetlands, a new study has warned. Salt marshes are coastal wetlands that are flooded and drained by salt water brought in by the tides, and are found all around the coastline of […]

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Indian Ocean island and its artisanal fishery leads the way on marine reserves

In the Indian Ocean a landmark fishery closure is being held to boost the artisanal fisheries of island communities Small-scale fisheries face growing challenges in the face of continued over exploitation. Rodrigues, a tiny Mauritian island, has been battling declining fisheries productivity for the last 15 years. Lying nearly 1,000 kilometres east of Madagascar, Rodrigues […]

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Action to protect the Coral Sea

The Coral Sea Protection Campaign sent the following appeal to our MARINET member Peter Waller, who has passed it on to us so that you may give some needed support to our colleagues ‘down under’. The Australian government is asking us all the question ‘do you want a Coral Sea Marine Reserve or not?’ We […]

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“Rogue fishermen” break Lyme Bay scallop fishing agreement

CMS News reports, 21st August 2012: Within a month of the Blue Marine Foundation signing up local fishermen to support the sustainable management of Lyme Bay and its reefs, four ‘rogue’ fishing boats have been recorded fishing in the closed area. Charles Clover, the instigator of the Blue Marine Foundation initiative, wrote at length in […]

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Pacific Islands create two of the world’s largest marine reserves, calling then “Pacific Oceanscape”

CNN reports, 3rd September 2012, in an article written by Dr. Greg Stone: “Last week, while most of the western world was focused on the approaching presidential election in the United States and a potentially disastrous hurricane making landfall in New Orleans, a group of seemingly small nations gathered on the Island of Rarotonga and […]

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Fishing in European marine reserves to be assessed for adverse impact

Fish2Fork reports, 20th August 2012: Scallop dredgers and trawlers could be forced out of more than 200 protected marine sites in UK waters as a result of a new legal ruling by the government. The new interpretation of EU law on habitats and species, which has been forced on the government by environmental groups, could […]

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Protection of Norfolk’s Sheringham reef and seven other Norfolk coastal gems in the balance

From Steve Downes in the EDP of 9th September 2011 under the title ‘Sheringham reef and seven other Norfolk coastal gems could get special protection’ the progress in obtaining the required protection status of Norfolk’s valuable marine sites is in the balance. Whilst Sheringham Reef (Europe’s longest that runs offshore from Sheringham to Mundesley) and […]

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