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The Inaugural meeting of the Shark Alliance Brussels, 17th, 18th & 19th April 2007 Following its acceptance of membership to the recently formed Shark Alliance, Save Our Sharks (SOS) a UK based sea angler shark conservation group attended the first anniversary and ... [full story]

A TIDE of fury swept Scotland's prawn fleet yesterday after it was revealed that Ben Bradshaw, Britain's fisheries minister, had agreed to hand almost £2 million of the North Sea's lucrative prawn catch to German skippers to save the livelihoods ... [full story]

The Scottish Parliament’s Environment and Rural Development Committee has called on the Executive to undertake urgent, comprehensive reform of marine environment legislation after finding existing laws complex and inadequate. The Committee’s report calls for the introduction of a single, integrated, ... [full story]

Here's the latest Newsletter from the SFSA Conservation and Access Team. The upcoming election to the Scottish Executive will offer us an ideal opportunity to get some real focus on sea angling in Scotland, it's Mikes leader and a ... [full story]

THE way our seas are governed is a "great muddle", the Scottish environment minister, Ross Finnie, admitted, and the solution could lie in a change to the Scotland Act. Mr Finnie said a Scottish marine bill was not likely to ... [full story]

IAN JOHNSTON ENVIRONMENT CORRESPONDENT ( ijohnston@scotsman.com) SCOTLAND's marine life could be almost wiped out within 50 years unless tough action is taken to manage the way humans use the seas, a consortium of environmental organisations has warned. They called for ... [full story]

Islanders' revolutionary conservation idea gathers support Severin Carrell, Scotland correspondent Wednesday January 3, 2007 The Guardian Don Macneish remembers when the seas around Arran on the Firth of Clyde teemed with life. When he was a boy, cod, ... [full story]

A new report commissioned by commercial fishermen has destroyed the myth that the reason why fish stocks are so low has little to do with climate change http://www.marlab.ac.uk/FRS.Web/Uploads/Do...20Fisheries.pdf If cod had been fished during 1988-2001 so that it produced the ... [full story]

SOS, SACN Scotland and the SFSA are running a combined campaign to encourage the Scottish executive to support proposals by Defra to introduce legislation at the Eu fisheries talks later this month. This will make it illegal to kill any ... [full story]

THOUSANDS of city-dwelling young people are to be encouraged to take up angling in the latest attempt to tackle anti-social behaviour. The Scottish National Angling Programme (SNAP) hopes to attract 50,000 new anglers over the next ten years in the ... [full story]