Inshore Fisheries Management Archives

Conservationists call for three-mile coastal fishing limit in Scotland

On Sunday 5th January 2020, The Guardian newspaper published an article highlighting the calls from the coalition #OurSeas, formed of community, fishing and marine protection groups who want to see fish stocks recovered in Scottish waters.

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.

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.