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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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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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