Illegal industrial fishing damaging Scotland’s ‘Great Barrier Reef’
On Friday 1st November, Channel 4 News covered the illegal dredging which took place in the Wester Ross Marine Protected Area (MPA) in July this year.
Inshore Fisheries Management
Communities call for urgent action
In August 2019 COAST was one of 45 signatories on open letters to the First Minister and the Environment Climate Change and Land Reform (ECCLR) Committee, seeking urgent action to protect our National waters.
Honest fishers neglected as a minority of Scottish boats fish illegally in MPAs and are “let off the hook”
169 of Scotland’s 2,000 fishing boats each had more more than five infringements between 2013 and 2015
Fishing organisations
From our beginning we have worked with fishing organisations to protect the seabed and restore diverse and productive seas that benefit fishers and all other businesses, which rely on sustainable coastal and maritime ecosystems.
