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Lyme Bay Closed to Trawling
Jun 19,2008 00:00
by
SACN
DEFRA announced today that 60 miles of Lyme Bay will be closed to all bottom trawling and scallop-dredging to protect features important to the area's marine ecology. Many SW beam-trawlers have recently converted to scallop-dredging as a response to the high fuel costs of beam-trawling. There is now concern that there will be an increase in the amount of static gear deployed in the area, including gill-netting, now that the risk of gear being towed away has been removed. |