Sea Anglers Conservation Network - Scotland

SACN and SOS attend an international shark conference

2007-04-25T00:00:00+00:00

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 inaugural meeting of the Shark Alliance member groups in Brussels. ...

Fury as Scots prawn quota is traded to benefit English boats

2007-03-26T00:00:00+00:00

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 of trawlermen in the south of England. The deal - ...

About time too! aka Environment Committee Urges Executive To Reform Marine Law

2007-03-14T00:00:00+00:00

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, regulatory system to co-ordinate competing activities in the marine environment. ...

NEW SFSA Conservation and Access Team newsletter

2007-02-05T00:00:00+00:00

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 key topic on page 1. In the next few weeks ...

Finnie vows to fix the 'great muddle' of governance

2007-01-24T00:00:00+00:00

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 be coming "immediately", but a UK bill expected this year ...