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October 1, 2013

PS says draft plan prepared in December included sufficient details

From: Malta Independent 

Parliamentary Secretary for Planning Michael Farrugia is in agreement with the proposal made by Environment Commissioner David Pace to draw up a marine development plan to regulate the development of the coast and surrounding seas as part of the Strategic Plan for the Environment and Development being undertaken by the government.

Dr Farrugia said the plan, drafted back in December, included sufficient detail as to what should take place and where, adding that specific and area-related matters can be dealt with once the plan is in place.

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September 6, 2013

We Apologize for the Inconvenience Resulting from the Outage of Our Website

         The CRE website was attacked with the result that had we not pulled down the website we would have risked loosing content.

         We appreciate your many emails and we are  working to continue to install state of the art  early warning systems.  We must , however, add that we have only had two major outages in more than a decade of operation.

        We are particularly concerned that some of you could not use the website for the preparation of regulatory filings.

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August 15, 2013

“Planning Scotland’s Seas” consultation launched (Lexology)

From: Lexology

On 25th July the Scottish Government issued a suite of consultation material under the overall heading of “Planning Scotland’s Seas”, which will eventually become the guiding documents for all Marine Planning and developments in Scotland’s seas.

The documents include the draft National Marine Plan for Scotland, draft Sectoral Marine Plans for Offshore Wind, Wave and Tidal energy in Scottish Waters, and a draft Circular on “The relationship between the statutory land use planning system and marine planning and licensing” in Scotland.

The consultation period on these documents runs until 13 November 2013.

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July 29, 2013

Shetland coast threatened by alien marine species

ORANGE-tipped sea squirt, wireweed and rainbow wrack are among the deadly dozen alien species placed on an “unwanted list” of potential invaders drawn up by marine experts.

 

The Marine Spatial Planning Team at Shetland’s North Atlantic Fisheries College (NAFC) Marine Centre, backed by Marine Scotland, have produced a definitive guide to help fish farmers and fishermen to identify non-native species that could pose a potential threat to area’s fishing and aquaculture industries.

Some of the alien invaders have already been found off the coast of the British mainland, including the carpet sea squirt, a filter feeding marine invertebrate from Japan which has managed to hitch a lift around the globe on boat hulls and in ballast water.

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July 19, 2013

NAFC MARINE CENTRE PRODUCE A GUIDE ON HOW TO IDENTIFY MARINE ALIENS

The Marine Spatial Planning Team at the NAFC Marine Centre have produced a guide to assist marine users in identifying introduced species (also known as non-native species or marine aliens), which can be damaging to Shetland’s marine environment and to its important marine industries, such as fishing and aquaculture. This is part of a project funded by Marine Scotland.

So far Shetland is relatively free from introduced species, but there is a risk that they could spread to Shetland from elsewhere in the UK, where they are becoming an increasing problem. Introduced species found on the Scottish mainland include ‘carpet sea squirt’ and ‘wireweed’, both of which are originally from Japan, but have managed to hitch a lift around the globe on boat hulls and in ballast water.

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