Post by account_disabled on Dec 23, 2023 23:00:28 GMT -5
Renton and other Seawilding staff regularly survey the loch on the charitys small boat which is retrofitted with an electric battery. He does the rounds hoisting up oyster nurseries small floating cages where juveniles grow mapping seaweed testing water quality and registering wildlife as it flits in and out of the loch. Every so often new boats drift into the loch navigated by curious conservationists who have heard about.
Seawilding and want to snorkel through the seagrass or quiz the community on how the scheme is fairing. When the kids swim and snorkel and see the seagrass waving at them Mobile App Development Service Mhey learn about it Hannah Tofts The biggest threat to the loch in recent decades has come from two controversial forms of fishing dredging and bottom trawling known as the inshore limits which prohibited industrial fishing within three nautical miles . miles .km of the shoreline.
Ever since fish stocks have rapidly declined and calls have been made to reinstate these boundaries. This incredibly destructive fishing practice came right into the shores and you still get scallop dredgers coming in here within metres of the shoreline says Renton. Increasingly shunned from the community these boats have started fishing under the cover of night he adds.
Seawilding and want to snorkel through the seagrass or quiz the community on how the scheme is fairing. When the kids swim and snorkel and see the seagrass waving at them Mobile App Development Service Mhey learn about it Hannah Tofts The biggest threat to the loch in recent decades has come from two controversial forms of fishing dredging and bottom trawling known as the inshore limits which prohibited industrial fishing within three nautical miles . miles .km of the shoreline.
Ever since fish stocks have rapidly declined and calls have been made to reinstate these boundaries. This incredibly destructive fishing practice came right into the shores and you still get scallop dredgers coming in here within metres of the shoreline says Renton. Increasingly shunned from the community these boats have started fishing under the cover of night he adds.