Publications

* indicates a Latest News item with a Marinet Comment
 

Acidification

• * Scientists are trying to lab-breed corals that are resistant to global warming — with Marinet Comment
• Ocean Acidification and its impact on Marine Plankton : is there a planetary emergency?

Aggregate Dredging

• * Judicial Review decision : aggregate dredging may proceed at Goodwin Sands MCZ — with Marinet Comment
• Marinet Briefing Paper : Mining the Deep Ocean
• * Goodwin Sands : Marinet takes legal action to protect “war graves” — with Marinet Comment
• Marine Aggregate Extraction — The Need to Dredge : Fact or Fiction?
• The Impact of Marine Dredging – Marinet Video
• Alternative Sea Defences: Why Canute Failed — our defences against the sea
• Aggregate Dredging Briefing Paper
• * Aggregate Companies seek licence from MMO to dredge Kingmere MCZ — with Marinet Comment

Coastal Defences

• Marinet develops a community-based coastal sea defence campaign for Norfolk and Suffolk
• * Hemsby, Norfolk, near to invasion by the sea — with Marinet Comment

Conservation

• Conserving The Great Blue: Overturning the Dominant Ocean Paradigm by Deborah Wright
• Marinet Briefing Paper : Mass Extinction in the Ocean – Is the sixth mass extinction imminent?
• * Is the new proposed High Seas Treaty up to the job? Marinet commentary — with Marinet Comment
• * Wildlife Trusts call for new UK Marine Strategy following Brexit — with Marinet Comment
• * UN lays groundwork for an Ocean Treaty — with Marinet Comment
• * Parliament concerned by UK Government’s handling of MCZs and MPAs — with Marinet Comment
• The Ocean Planet by Deborah Wright : a proposal for fundamental change in marine management — PDF download
• An Illustrated Guide to UK Marine Animals
• * Defra proposes a “tranche three” of MCZs, as Marinet questions their value — with Marinet Comment
• * Drone to patrol fisheries in Pitcairn Islands marine reserve – with Marinet Comment
• * UK Government doubles the number of MCZs, but is it real conservation? – with Marinet Comment

Fisheries

• * MSC suspends North Sea cod stock‘s sustainable fishing certificate — with Marinet Comment
• * How severe is the crisis in Mediterranean fish stocks? — with Marinet Comment
• Marinet publishes YouTube recording of its UK Universities Seminar
• * New fish farms in Iceland risk decimating wild salmon populations — with Marinet Comment
• * Hundreds of Dolphins dying on French beaches, fishermen the alleged culprits — with Marinet Comment
• * UK trawlers are ignoring the ban on the discarding of fish at sea — with Marinet Comment
• * “Grey Fish” in Scotland – the catch that escapes the radar : the problem and solution — with Marinet Comment
• * Seas-At-Risk organisation evaluates new fishing proposals, including electric pulse fishing — with Marinet Comment
• * Disturbing news from salmon fish farms in British Columbia, Canada — with Marinet Comment
• * Sea beds take years to recover from bottom trawling, say scientists — with Marinet Comment
• * Devon Wildlife Trust launches Wrasse petition, and says new measures are not enough — with Marinet Comment
• * Is Cod returning to Newfoundland, Canada? — with Marinet Comment
• * Nine of world’s largest fishing companies sign agreement to fish sustainably — with Marinet Comment
• * NEF reports EU still fishing at levels beyond scientific advice — with Marinet Comment
• * EU declares it will solve Mediterranean fishing crisis — with Marinet Comment
• EU Fisheries in Crisis : Politicians are wilfully “breaking the law”
• * Single Pacific bluefin tuna sold for £½ million at auction, as stock nears extinction — with Marinet Comment
• * ClientEarth researches enforcement of CFP Rules in England by MMO and IFCAs — with Marinet Comment
• * Marine Management Organisation publishes rules of catching of Bass — with Marinet Comment
• * True level of global fishing 50% greater than figures being reported, say scientists — with Marinet Comment
• * FishingTV : The true cost of farmed salmon — with Marinet Comment
• * Many CFP 2017 fishing limits set too high, says ClientEarth – with Marinet Comment
• * Marinet publishes proposals for the UK fishing industry following Brexit — with Marinet Comment
• * The Pew Trust publishes “10 reasons to end over-fishing in Europe — with Marinet Comment

Global Warming

• * Brussels Conference on the Ocean and Climate Change criticised by activists — with Marinet Comment

Marine Wildlife

• * Deep ocean mining will destroy vital new medicines, say scientists — with Marinet Comment

Pollution

• * Is the new Bathing Water Directive being correctly implemented in the UK, asks Marinet — with Marinet Comment
• Marinet Briefing Paper : Sand, Sea and Sewage — A History of the campaign and struggle to secure the implementation of the European Bathing Water Directive 76/160/EEC
• * Marinet Special : Plastic in the Ocean — with Marinet Comment
• * 4 Views on the Ocean Plastic problem, and possible solutions — with Marinet Comment
• * Ocean Cleanup Project says engineering advances for plastic recovery will be tested in 2017 — with Marinet Comment
• * Extraordinary levels of pollution 10km deep in the Mariana trench, say scientists — with Marinet Comment
• Are Plastic Bags Really So Bad? — PDF download

Radioactivity

• * Tritium contaminated water from Fukushima to be dumped in Pacific Ocean — with Marinet Comment
• * Bradwell decides against further FED discharges into the Blackwater Estuary MCZ — with Marinet Comment
• * Env. Agency announces permit approval for Bradwell (Essex) FED discharges — with Marinet Comment