Don MacNeish & Howard Wood discuss all things marine. The Good the Bad & the Ugly
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No wonder he smiles. £8.5 million pounds from UK taxpayers to support #Mowi's polluting activities in Scotland - including a recruitment drive around High Schools. Kids need to be going into sustainable industries with a future, not dying #Salmon farming. fishfarmingexpert.com/aquacu…
Howard & Don retweeted
Foreign owned #salmon companies spend vast amounts of money on PR promoting their polluting basket case of an industry. Im proud to be a small part of this effort to cut through the bullshit and show the reality of factory farming salmon in Scotland. youtube.com/watch?v=d1i3-KHN…
Responsible for the dire state of Wild Salmon, A Scottish Government addicted to subsidies & poor regulation of the foreign owned polluting business.
thenational.scot/news/265953… – at Knockenkelly, Scotland
If @CalMacFerries can't operate a ferry to Arran in a Force 5, its time to get a new ferry company to operate in the Clyde @StephenFlynnSNP – at Knockenkelly, Scotland
Thatcher Gov sold it off to Peel Ports, one ofthe reasons Glasgow s waterfront isn't like majority of European river/estuary cities.
Howard & Don retweeted
🚨 The impacts of bottom trawling can persist for decades, new research shows
More than 25 years after destructive bottom trawling ended in an area off Chile, scientists are still finding lower live coral cover & reduced biodiversity 🪸 @OceanaChile
oceanographicmagazine.com/ne… 🔽
The failure of @theSNP @JohnSwinney
To adopt fisheries spatial management (as effectively practiced by our neighbours)clearly shows they cant manage #Scotlands resources. The elephant in the room when it comes to managing Scottish fisheries scotlink.org/the-elephant-in… – at Whiting Bay, Scotland
.@JohnSwinney @JimFairlieLogie continue to support Maggie Thatcher's Tory abolition of the 3-mile limit in 1985. This measure opened up our inshore waters to destroy nursery habitat, ultimately costing an 88% reduction in inshore fishing boats. #Inshorelimit = Economic Recovery
Can the @ScotGovFM answer how he would govern an Independent County when @theSNP ministers have failed dozens of legally binding marine & fisheries commitments. All devolved.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0…
Howard & Don retweeted
Its a broken food system when #Salmon farmers are relying on increasingly pressuried wild fish to feed a sad farmed one, loosing fish protein in the process. Watch as aqua feed companies shift their focus to #krill and destroy another food web. fishfarmermagazine.com/news/…
For over 2 decades I have asked & pleaded with @ScotGovMarine @ScotGovFM to urgently put in protection to make our inshore waters more resilient to #ClimateChange They ignored myself & 84% of Scots. To favour destructive bottom towed gear. This collapse was a political choice. – at Knockenkelly, Scotland
Forget the Permian - Triassic Great Dying
We are approaching the first great extermination of marine life
theguardian.com/environment/…
We have all the tested solutions but in marine @ScotGovMarine
@JimFairlieLogie bogged down in Trawl n Dredge Regulator Capture, #InshoreLimit theguardian.com/global-devel… – at Knockenkelly, Scotland
Howard & Don retweeted
🌊 The race to protect 30% of our seas by 2030 is CRITICAL to a healthy planet & future. But it is utterly meaningless if those areas deemed to be 'protected', actually allow destructive activities, like bottom trawling, to take place within their boundaries.
theconversation.com/the-worl…
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'We are being sleepwalked into a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions'
George Monbiot on how some climate predictions show temperatures in Edinburgh falling to -48 degrees at times
As we approach Sir David Attenborough's 100th Birthday, last year the SFF called his message (to only allow low impact fishing within Scotland's MPAs) "PROPAGANDA" @JohnSwinney CabSecs Gudgeon & Martin dropped new management promises for 10 years.@theSNP ignoring over 80%public
& poor small boat infrastructure, Arran, in the centre of the UK 2nd largest boating area is the only island of all European island over 1100 population without all-weather and all states of the tide small boat facilities. @NAC_Leader
Never mind 6 yachts Offord. Tragedy is so few Scots have modest wee boats or sailing skills when our coastline covers a third of the planet. We have fewer boats than everyone else in N Europe for simple fixable reasons. Keep Out signs. Landowners. Poverty thenational.scot/news/188203…
The Incoming Tide interviews @theSNP wise retired MSP Rob Gibson about Parliament, marine & climate change issues needing addressed in the next session @ourseas_scot @TheOpenSeas @WildFishCons
youtu.be/dw0Txzqai-Y
BUT also locks in carbon. Up to 18x more than all #Scotlands
Peat bogs & trees together.
At present ignored by @ScotGovMarine @theSNP
heraldscotland.com/news/2606… – at Whiting Bay, Scotland
Howard & Don retweeted
The nets Europe’s bottom trawlers drag across the ocean floor are releasing CO2 stored in the seabed and killing up to 75 percent of the marine life unintentionally caught up in the process.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2…
. @ScotGovMarine @NatureScot continue to be a bit picky and choosy on what evidence they use. If it doesn't suit their narrow policy agenda, ignore it. Time for an enquiry – at Whiting Bay, Scotland
