Lots happening in Scottish seas at the moment - read more here! 👇🏻🌊🐚🪸
'We know protection works' - Calum Duncan, convenor of our marine group, spoke to @parliament.scot
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee this morning about fisheries management measures for offshore marine protected areas.
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Today LINK’s Esther Brooker gave evidence on Clyde cod protection, urging a holistic, ecosystem-based approach: precautionary closures, bycatch reduction, seabed monitoring, collaboration with local fishers, and aligned fisheries management for resilient ecosystems and sustainable communities. 🐟
“Marine protected areas are essential for Scotland’s traditional fishing industry”. In a new article, LINK expresses concerns over the lack of marine actions in the Programme for Government and calls for the long-awaited fisheries management measures in MPAs.
📖 Read the article: bit.ly/3Siis7L
Fancy exploring life under the waves? 🤿
Dive into Scotland’s first Snorkel Festival with us! Led by Berwickshire Marine Reserve, there are lots of great events running from Friday 27 to Sunday 29 June. We hope to sea you there! 🌊
Book your place today! 👇
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🌊 Registrations are now OPEN for Sea Scotland 2025!
Grab your spot to join our first-ever Ocean Hustings on 6th October at the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute.
🚨Register today: bit.ly/44nKQfm
In 2020, we published the Ocean Recovery Plan, calling for urgent action to restore Scotland’s seas by 2030.
Now, our first review (2020–2024) is out. How much progress has been made?
📘 Read the report: www.scotlink.org/an-ocean-rec...
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‼️OPPORTUNITY: Sea Scotland Steering Group Membership
We are inviting Expressions of Interest (EOI) from organisations, groups or individuals based in Scotland who would like to join the Sea Scotland conference steering group.
💡Find out more & apply: bit.ly/4cI6OhG
Come and see our poster at #SI2026 on distribution and habitat associations of threatened elasmobranchs in Scotland. Hall A over the next couple of days. See you there! 🦈
Scotland’s seas need urgent protection. After a decade of delays, Scottish Environment LINK calls on party leaders to start a public consultation on coastal marine protected areas within 100 days of the May 2026 elections.
Let’s protect marine life and support coastal communities. #SaveScottishSeas
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The SNP government didn’t even mention the sea in its recent Programme for Government
The Scottish government has published proposals for protecting priority marine features (PMFs) such as flame shell and maerl beds outside marine protected areas.
Read our new blog to why this matters for Scotland’s seas and coastal communities:
www.scotlink.org/new-manageme...
The newly published proposals for protecting priority marine features outside of marine protected areas (MPAs), which are expected to open for formal public consultation in November along with proposa...
