🔗 Read the full report — mba.ac.uk/octopus-bloom-off-southwest-uk-new-report-reveals-scale-causes-and-consequences/

#OctopusBloom #SouthWestFisheries #ClimateChange #MarineScience #FishingCommunities #UKFisheries

🐟 Clean Catch is seeking fishermen in England to help co-design bycatch guidance for demersal beam & otter trawls (early 2026, ~4 hrs, no bycatch disclosure needed, anonymity optional).

📩secretariat@cleancatchuk.com

#CleanCatch #Bycatch #UKFisheries
@cefasgovuk.bsky.social

‘We don’t want to be a toy town’: has Brexit sunk this historic UK fishing fleet? Struggling fishers in Hastings say the industry is dying after a deal giving away access to its waters made a tough job impossible

#UKfisheries #FishingCommunities #CoastalCommunities

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📊 Sussex IFCA has released the 2024 Shellfish Permit Catch Return Summary 🦞
It includes permit numbers, species landings, and seasonal trends in fishing effort and efficiency
secure.toolkitfiles.co.uk/clients/3408...

#Sussex_IFCA #FisheriesData #Shellfish #LPUE #UKFisheries #SustainableFishing

SEGs Stranglehold

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UK eel fishermen have followed every law, every quota, every traceability rule.
Meanwhile European smugglers make millions trafficking glass eels.
Now, we’re being shut down — not for doing wrong, but for doing it right.
#EelCrisis #UKFisheries

So, everything that we said would happen, then?

The #brexit leadership knew all of this. They knew the damage that their ideology would cause. They didn't care. They still don't. #UKfisheries

Climate Adaptive Fisheries Management - Howell Marine Consulting To support the UK government in meeting Objective 8b of the Fisheries Act (2020), HMC undertook an evaluation of the suitability of global climate-adaptive fisheries management measures within the UK…

🚨 New report from Defra and HMC explores how UK fisheries can adapt to climate change 🌡️🐟

The outcome? A global review of climate-adaptive fisheries management with guiding principles for the UK.

🔗 howellmarine.co.uk/project/cafm/

#ClimateAdaptation #Fisheries #Resilience #UKFisheries #CAFMs