🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐟 Calling on our Scottish supporters to help protect vital herring spawning habitat by sharing @openseas_scot's open letter with MSPs

Mairi Gougeon Lorna Slater Finlay Carson MSP Maree Todd Scot Gov Marine 👇

Hugo Tagholm Blue Marine Foundation Sussex Wildlife Trust 🦔 Sussex IFCA Southern IFCA @Sussex_IFCA's Nearshore Trawling Byelaw is one of several fisheries management measures initiated in 2010 as part of our strategy towards #EcosystemBasedManagement , in which it has been a privilege to have been involved, currently as Chair sussex-ifca.gov.uk/regulations#tr… #SussexKelp

Nature underpins the majority of global #GDP through the services it provides to people, such as clean air, food, and water.

So, investing in #nature makes economic sense.

#Overfishing is disrupting causing disturbance & damage to the seabed and contributing to rising #GHGEmissions .

Scientists show that by phasing out destructive fishing practices, we can store carbon, restore marine biodiversity & drive climate resilience. communicationsinc.co.uk/ocean_isu_blog…

Talk about running the gauntlet, these purple smolts have got to navigate through clouds of salmon farm origin sea lice at the very start of their long journey, bloody depressing. #Offthetable Mairi Gougeon

It's a legal requirement to prevent harm to our seabed! Scottish Ministers lose court appeal, as landmark judgment upheld by senior judges📷
@ScotGov must overhaul its approach to licensing damaging fisheries particularly scallop dredging
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The Scottish Government have an obligation to protect herring spawning habitat, why wont/don't they take action? Easy win when they currently look like they don't give a fig for the environment or coastal communities. #InshoreLimit Mairi Gougeon

Great to be able to present the results from 12 years of monitoring the spatial management approach to #conservation & #fisheries around the Isle of #Arran at #IPW2024 Many thanks to the many people who have helped make this work possible!

Announcing the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize winners 🌎🏆

Discover their stories: goldmanprize.org

#GoldmanPrize

An evil force threatens the future of our fishing communities.

Not a masked killer but a ruthless adversary: Government sanctioned overfishing 🎣

In this story, you decide the final cut. Retweet & tag Defra UK to demand all catch limits be set in line with science!

‼️BREAKING ‼️
A victory for Scotland's seas 🌊

Read our blog for more info👉openseas.org.uk/news/a-legal-v…

#openseas #enviromentaljustice #bringbackthefish #oceanoptimism

This mornings young Scientists from Stanley PS & EYC out on research vessel #coastexplorer collecting plankton samples and surveying the seabed in order to identify Mearl bed habitats. NAC_STEM Arran Coast SAPOE Ardrossan Academy

Fact: Bottom trawling is the most destructive technique used to catch fish.
Fact: 90% of the most bottom-trawled seas in the world are in Europe
Fact: We can help end this marine decimation
#BanBottomTrawling
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🦐 Bycatch: What’s the catch? We investigated the hidden problem of bycatch in scampi bottom-trawl industry and found images that expose the impact this fishing method currently has on the environment.

Visit our website to learn more.
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#SayNoToScampi

Nature destruction will cause bigger economic slump in UK than 2008 crisis, experts warn. “Gradual, year-to year environmental degradation is as detrimental or more so than climate change”. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Following attending a ‘community engagement’ event by MOWI in Ullapool, where they presented their intentions to install a feed barge on Loch Broom, this is especially relevant.

The whole community LITERALLY raised their hands against the proposal. Ailsa McLellan WildFish