Fal Helford Seagrass Webinar today!

Oh for goodness sake, there goes another harbour!

Is it bad that I'm thinking we need to proactively kill the seagrass to stop this kind of thing?
 
So some interesting cost information for the Cawsand deployment ...£1200 per 'advanced' mooring plus £200 per annual inspection (not yet clear whether these were the preferential rates the diving contractors gave for trial moorings or not).

Also interesting to hear that Natural England takes/follows the advice of The Seahorse Trust.
 
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Yes, there are some follow up questions to be asked ! The lady's statement nearly made me fall off my chair.

A useful slide introduced the Defra MAGIC map

Magic Map Application (defra.gov.uk)

which turns out to be a very useful GIS tool indeed.


Did I read too much in the chat box that a couple of people had their ability to post turned off ? :) I wonder, I wonder why ?
 
I missed this until too late so is anyone who actually attended the Webinar able to précis the salient points please?

I’m expecting the usual ’luxury yachts’ and ‘anchoring is bad’ arguments and a prognosis that anchoring will be banned but there will be expensive moorings to be used, but I live in hope…..

Interestingly, the worst offenders for anchoring inside the No Anchoring areas seem to be local day boats.
 
I joined late due to a technology fight with MS Teams. My impression was it was more about the activities of the project and its benefits, rather than a seagrass hard sell and impending restrictions. The presentation team had an assumption that everyone was super keen on seagrass. I dropped in when they'd got to:
Importance of seagrass & maerl habitats
Threats
Anchoring Video pf anchor chain sweeping bare areas.
traditional mooring effects
The difference that chain length makes to swept area.
Anchoring best practice including the RYA document.
Varous projects e.g. Cawsand, Helford (Porth Saxon I think), St. Mawes Amsterdam point and the local effects of the efforts (eg creating an accidental inshore swimming area at St. mawes).
Intro to the various advance mooring systems including some diver video of installation.
A very brief Q&A session...a little too brief to be honest
An interesting admission (see above).

I wanted to know whether any of these projects were a precursor to a Studland style putsch and how comfortable NE were with cosying up to a certain Trust. However a speedy close to the session resulting in my being booted out as I typed..... c'est la vie!
 
oldharry said:
A view I have heard expressed in all seriousness by some extremist conservationists, who seem to think they are the only ones who can be trusted to go outdoors and not ruin everything!
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The trouble is, they're not 100% wrong in this conclusion.
 
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