URGENT: petition to Save Lyme Bay Reefs

[Lisa Chilton]

Defra is currently (till 7 Dec 07) consulting on options to protect the Lyme Bay Reefs from scallop dredging.
The Lyme Bay Reefs are a favourite UK dive destination - and one of England's top five sites for marine wildlife - but scallop dredging is reducing the reefs to lifeless rubble.
The Wildlife Trusts are calling for a statutory ban on scallop dredging on all of the Lyme Bay Reefs - an area of 60 square miles, which is less than 10% of Lyme Bay. This would protect not just the wildlife, but also the sustainable activities that rely on healthy reefs: diving, angling and potting.
To find out more, support our petition or write to Defra, please visit www.savelymebayreefs.org
To get involved in The Wildlife Trusts' marine campaigns, visit www.wildlifetrusts.org and click on the Save Our Seas panel.
Thanks for your support.
Lisa Chilton, The Wildlife Trusts

[CotoChris]

Signed and sealed!

How can the UK be so weak with the marine reserves, it has even less than Lithuania. It's bewildering this iognorance from the goverment. Even the my local Spanish fisherman are requesting more marine reserves! : BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Fishermen ride sustainability wave

[Lisa Chilton]

Thanks for your support.
If you're interested, I've just produced a new report 'Marine Reserves - TLC for our seas and sea life'. You can download it at The Wildlife Trusts

Cheers,
Lisa

[Marky Mark]

So were you a mermaid down at the dive show?

[Stesh]

Done.

[Lisa Chilton]

Hi Marky Mark,
I was in the company of mermaids (and a 'mermaphrodite') at the Dive Show, but was not so scantily clad myself.

Lisa

[Wet & Broke]

Hi Lisa, signed it at the show after a chat with you or one of the other lovely ladies (by that I don't mean the very odd looking mermaids) about diving in the UK and especially the South West.
Doug

[keith_henson]

Originally Posted by Lisa Chilton

Defra is currently (till 7 Dec 07) consulting on options to protect the Lyme Bay Reefs from scallop dredging.
The Lyme Bay Reefs are a favourite UK dive destination - and one of England's top five sites for marine wildlife - but scallop dredging is reducing the reefs to lifeless rubble.
The Wildlife Trusts are calling for a statutory ban on scallop dredging on all of the Lyme Bay Reefs - an area of 60 square miles, which is less than 10% of Lyme Bay. This would protect not just the wildlife, but also the sustainable activities that rely on healthy reefs: diving, angling and potting.
To find out more, support our petition or write to Defra, please visit www.savelymebayreefs.org
To get involved in The Wildlife Trusts' marine campaigns, visit www.wildlifetrusts.org and click on the Save Our Seas panel.
Thanks for your support.
Lisa Chilton, The Wildlife Trusts

Lisa,

was you at the offshore adaptive management seminar at the SOAS last week?

Keith

[Lisa Chilton]

Hi Keith,
Yes, that was me banging the Lyme Bay drum. I thought I was going to have to wrestle Bob to the ground to get hold of the mike, but fortunately it didn't come to that : )


Lisa

[UKPhil]

done