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Scallop dredging: why is it considered so damaging to reefs?
I first wrote this blog back in 2012. If moved off-site for several years, but in 2020 I’ve reinstated it, with a few very minor changes. Lyme bay now has statutory protection from scallop dredging, and all towed bottom fishing … Continue reading
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Tagged fisheries habitat impacts, Lyme Bay, Lyme Bay Closed Area, Lyme Bay Reefs, marine conservation, mobile fishing gear, scallop dredging, scallop dredging damage, scallop dredging impacts, seabed damage, seabed habitat destruction, seabed impacts, towed fishing gear habitat impacts
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How to buy bad science.
Summary Lyme Bay Closed Area was a first for British waters. The very first statutory closed area established for conservation reason, protecting fragile reefs and associated species from the effects of bottom-fishing trawls and scallop dredges. It was a long … Continue reading
Posted in Lyme Bay marine ecology, Seabed survey and monitoring
Tagged bad science, DEFRA Marine Conservation Zones, diver monitoring, England MCZs, Lyme Bay Closed Area, Lyme Bay closed area monitoring, Lyme Bay exclusion zone, Lyme Bay no-take zone, lyme Bay protected area, Lyme Bay Reefs, marine bio-images, marine biological monitoring, Marine Conservation Zones, Marine Protected Areas, MPAs, Natural England Marine Conservation Zones, No take zones
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Lyme Bay, Lane’s Ground Reef: sponge species recovery and opportunities lost
As part of a small study looking in to gear impacts on seabed species, we recently conducted a few dives attempting to record HD video of bottom trawls and crab pots working on the seabed. Unfortunately we picked a period … Continue reading
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Tagged bottom fishing impacts, bottom trawling impacts, Lyme Bay, Lyme Bay Closed Area, Lyme Bay closed area monitoring, Lyme Bay exclusion zone, lyme Bay protected area, Lyme Bay Reefs, mobile fishing gear impacts, scallop dredging, scallop dredging impacts, sponge assemblages, sponge communities
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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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Tagged circalittoral reef, circalittoral reefs, East Tennants Reef, Eunicella verrucosa, Leptopsammia pruvoti, limestone reefs, Lyme Bay, Lyme Bay Closed Area, Lyme Bay exclusion zone, Lyme Bay Reefs, marine ecology, pink seafans, Saw-tooth Ledges, scallop dredging, scallop dredging impacts, seafan seaslug, sunset coral, Tritonia nilsodnheri
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Lyme Bay Closed Area Monitoring: what we have learned so far.
After almost 18 years of research, campaigning and negotiation, statutory protection for the most vuulnerable reefs in Lyme Bay became a reality in 2008. This was deemed necessary as, despite voluntary agreements, it was apparent the damage to the reefs … Continue reading
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Tagged bottom trawling impacts, diver monitoring, Lyme Bay Closed Area, Lyme Bay closed area monitoring, Lyme Bay monitoring, Lyme Bay no-take zone, lyme Bay protected area, marine bio-images, Marine Conservation Zones, MCZs, scallop dredging, scallop dredging impacts
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Lyme Bay Closed Area Monitoring
Final Report covering diver monitoring 2008-2010 now available here. Introduction In 2008, DEFRA closed an area of Lyme Bay, southwest England, some 60 square miles in extent to all mobile benthic fishing gear, i.e. bottom trawling and scallop dredging. This … Continue reading
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Tagged colin munro, diver monitoring, Lyme Bay Closed Area, Lyme Bay closed area monitoring, Lyme Bay monitoring, Lyme Bay no-take zone, lyme Bay protected area, marine bio-images, marine biological monitoring, marine biological suurveys, marine conservation, scientific diving, seabed monitoring
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