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Scallop dredging: how we approach marine habitat protection from entirely the wrong direction.

Scallop dredging is a crude, inefficient, non-selective, and hugely destructive means of collecting shellfish.  It is akin to using a bulldozer to collect mushrooms. If you were to plough through the top few inches of soil with a bulldozer bucket, … Continue reading

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Lyme Bay Reefs

As I’ve been writing a fair amount about Lyme Bay and the Lyme Bay Closed Area protection and its effects recently, I thought I’d post a small selection of images to illustrate why the reefs of Lyme Bay are so … Continue reading

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