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The Great Clyde Nurdle Quest – Volunteers Wanted!
Nurdles are small plastic pellets about the size of a lentil. Countless billion are used each year to make nearly all our plastic products but many end up washing up on our…
COAST News – Will election candidates support inclusive marine governance?
COAST have asked all local candidates and leaders of the main political parties for their views on effective marine management and the inclusion of coastal communities on marine decision making groups. Despite…
Electric Pulse Fishing – Suddenly it is appearing.
At Coastal Futures Conference in January Jerry Percy, CE of Low Impact Fishers of Europe, presented a disturbing picture of the rise in electric pulse fishing. Beam trawling operates by towing a…
South Arran MPA – It’s official!
The graphic below shows the various sections that make up the South Arran MPA, now officially designated. As happy as we are about the South Arran MPA, it is important not to…
COAST news
Prawn trawl lobby tries to undermine Scottish Government MPAs as coastal communities bombarded with scare stories and spin. Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are designed to protect marine species and habitats (many of…
Towards a ‘blue economy’
by Dan Laffoley, Le Monde diplomatique, originally published in French, reproduced by permission of the publishers. Marine protected areas are of particular interest to us here on Arran, and we thought it…
Do “Anti-predator nets” protect seals as well as salmon?
Just one in five salmon farms in Scotland has installed the most effective method of deterring seals, data reveals, prompting fresh criticism of claims that the animals are shot as “a last…
Fish Farming in Lamlash Bay
Some readers may have seen the notice from SEPA, the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, in the newspapers about an application from the Scottish Salmon Company (SSC), who propose an increase in cage…
Why some scientists are worried about a cold ‘blob’ in the North Atlantic Ocean …
… and should we be bothered here on Arran? Sally Campbell writes for the Voice: The first eight months of 2015 were the hottest such stretch yet recorded for the globe’s surface…
COAST news
COAST reports that the proposed management plans announced in early June for our MPAs are in real danger of being diluted or possibly abolished completely. As COAST explains “The Cabinet Secretary for…
An update on Saveseilsound
I think it’s a good time to report to Saveseilsound contributors on where we are now at with industrial salmon installations in our part of mid-Argyll, as there seem to be no…
Scottish Salmon Company plans expansion in the Clyde
Last month my husband John and I attended a Community Council meeting in Bute where the Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) were to make a presentation on their desire to open two salmon…