📽️ We’re still touring The Orkney Dive for our #DivedNotDredged campaign – recently in #Arran with the Community of Arran Seabed Trust to talk sustainable seafood & marine protection. Big thanks to MARA Fish Bar & Deli and everyone who joined the conversation.

Arran, we’ll be back! 🐟🌊

If you don't laugh, you'll cry 🥲 #DivedNotDredged

📢 #Highlands & #Skye join us on 12 March from 5.30pm for the #DIVEDNOTDREDGED Movie & Seafood Experience.

Featuring The Orkney Dive, a short film on scallop diving in Orkney & beyond, alongside discussion, drinks, light bites & the Coastal Testimonies exhibition
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/divednotdr...

Thursday 12th March, from 5.30pm @Skye Bridge Studios 123 A sustainable seafood experience #DivedNotDredged "The Orkney Dive" movie screening starts at 7pm Welcome drinks, buffet and exhibition from 5.30pm

📢 #Highlands & #Skye join us on 12 March from 5.30pm for the #DIVEDNOTDREDGED Movie & Seafood Experience.

Featuring The Orkney Dive, a short film on scallop diving in Orkney & beyond, alongside discussion, drinks, light bites & the Coastal Testimonies exhibition
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/divednotdr...

The Independent Climate 100 List 2025 in full Now in its second year, The Independent is proud to publish its list of the world’s leading environmentalists – marking the campaigners, change makers and innovators who are working to stop the damage...

Congratulations to Caroline Bennett, an @exeterfood.bsky.social associate, named in The Independent’s Climate 100 List 2025. Founder of Sole of Discretion, she champions small-scale sustainable fisheries and the #DivedNotDredged campaign for hand-dived scallops. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

Still thinking about those hand-dived scallops from our #DivedNotDredged lunch at The Gannet last weekend 🍽️😋

A huge thank you again to chefs Peter McKenna and Calum Montgomery for an incredible menu that showed just how good sustainable seafood can be and why how we catch our seafood matters.

Yesterday at The Gannet in Glasgow we held our #DivedNotDredged lunch with chefs Peter McKenna and Calum Montgomery, celebrating Scotland’s hand-dived scallops and the need to back low-impact fishing methods.

Today we’re at The Gannet in Glasgow with Edinbane Lodge for our #DivedNotDredged lunch, celebrating Scotland’s hand-dived scallops.

The collaborative menu by Peter McKenna & Calum Montgomery will showcase the best of Scotland’s low-impact seafood, bringing together chefs, divers & seafood lovers ⬇️

Study tracks UK’s journey from seafood self-sufficiency to dependence on imports More than a century of data reveals how the UK has gone from supplying domestic seafood needs from productive home waters to importing seafood from almost 90 countries. University of Exeter researcher...

Learn more here: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

And check out our #DivedNotDredged campaign, calling for sustainable, low-impact fishing in Scotland’s inshore waters: openseas.org.uk/dived-not-dr...

"This Saturday on Papay Westray 🎬 🐚

Join us for a FREE screening of 'The Orkney Dive' in support of our #DivedNotDredged campaign — with fresh hand-dived scallops on the menu.

Spend a night celebrating low-impact fishing & high-quality seafood. Find out more about our work at openseas.org.uk

Our message is out there on the big screen:

🤿 Support low-impact fishermen by choosing dive caught scallops, not dredged.

Though scallops might all look the same on your plate, how they’re caught makes a huge difference to the seabed.

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Catch methods matter! #DivedNotDredged

Hearing divers’ stories never gets old.

When we spoke with scallop diver and Director of Keltic Seafare, Alasdair Hughson, for our The Orkney Dive film, he had plenty to share about how rich life on Scotland’s seabed can be.

Take a look 👇

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Petition to Bring Back Scotland's Inshore Limit Scotland's coastal seabed was off-limits to bottom-trawling until 1984. Ever since the limit was removed, the fish in our seas declined as seabed habitats were destroyed. Protecting our seabed will he...

✍️ Scotland can do the same — sign the Our Seas petition to call for stronger protections for inshore waters: ourseasscotland.eaction.org.uk/bring-back-t...

#DivedNotDredged

“With the recent increase in dredging in Orkney over the last two years, we would love to see protections put in place to safeguard the seabed.”

Scallop diver Nick Nourse speaking at our recent #DivedNotDredged event featured in The Orcadian.

Learn more: www.openseas.org.uk/dived-not-dr...

It’s All About #DivedNotDredged Seafood at The Duke Organic The Duke Organic in Islington is partnering with Open Seas and Patagonia to raise awareness of the #DivedNotDredged campaign. The initiative from Open Seas is shining a light on Scotland's scallop dive sector and highlighting its sustainable approach to fishing, which provides high-quality, low-impact seafood to restaurants. Scallop divers, chefs, policy-makers and sustainability experts from...

It’s All About #DivedNotDredged Seafood at The Duke Organic

This is why we proudly support the #DivedNotDredged campaign, advocating for:
✅ Clear labelling of catch methods on menus
✅ Support for low-impact, fair fishing practices
✅ A stronger voice for sustainability in Scotland’s food culture

Seafood shouldn’t cost the earth.
Support low-impact methods like scallop diving over dredging.
Tell food influencers to choose sustainability
👉 www.openseas.org.uk/dived-not-dr...

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Dived Not Dredged

We've launched our #DivedNotDredged campaign to celebrate the best of #Scottishseafood and encourage food influencers like #Michelin and #AAawards to champion sustainability!
Please take action here >>
www.openseas.org.uk/dived-not-dr...