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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]

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]

Europe's fisheries commissioner is in Scotland on a fact-finding mission ahead of EU fish quota negotiations. Joe Borg's two-day visit to Aberdeen, Shetland and the Western Isles is likely to be dominated by opposition to a proposed ban on cod ... [full story]

A deal agreed today (21/11/06) at the November Fisheries Council in Brussels will help to protect seriously depleted deep-sea species. Scientific advice suggests that stocks such as deep sea sharks are over exploited an there should be an immediate and ... [full story]

Defra have asked Cefas to prepare a scientific case for introducing a maximum landing size and on long-term management needs for these species. For full details http://www.save-our-sharks.org/e107_...opic.php?662.0 SPURDOG The primary objective of a ... [full story]

There have been calls for a seal cull More research needs to be done into the impact grey seals are having on fish stocks, Deputy Environment Minister Rhona Brankin has said. Her comments come in the wake of ... [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]

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]

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]

Marine Spatial Planning: A Scottish Perspective Firth of Clyde Forum Annual Conference 2006 Tuesday 21st November, The Lighthouse, Glasgow Marine management around the UK is changing; there is a growing awareness that the marine environment needs ... [full story]