Irish Sea Conservation Zones
Thanks to Laura Bates for coming to our meeting on 12th May to tell us more about the Irish Sea Conservation Zones project. The project has a group of 41 delegates, each looking after a specific interest group – fishing, gas, conservation etc. Their remit is to establish a set of conservation zones in the Irish sea, that will ultimately link to similar zones around the UK. The purpose of the current phase is to identify areas of high conservation potential, and determine what level of protection might be appropriate to minimise the impact of any legislation on other activities.
For more information, or to make your views heard, please see the Irish Sea Conservation Zones website:
May 13th, 2010 at 7:04 am
I do wonder if we might be able to request diving access to the new wind farms through this zones scheme? – The laying of hard substrates required for foundations may introduce some additional diversity, plus any trawling protecting within the farms should reduce damage to softer sediments as well. Should make for a rather interesting dive site – even if it is only to be proven wrong!
July 11th, 2010 at 8:27 am
actually it is not that hard to setup wind farms, the only problem is that it requires lots of capital investment.-*;