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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
Posted in Lyme Bay marine ecology
Tagged bottom towed fishing gear, fisheries impacts, fishing environmental impacts, fishing gear habitat impacts, fishing gear seabed impacts, fishing impacts, Lane's Ground reef, Lyme Bay, marine ecology, marine environmental impacts, Marine Protected Areas, Marine zoning, scallop dredgers, scallop dredging, scallop dredging impacts, seabed habitat assessment, seabed habitat destruction, The Exeters Reef
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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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