MCZ and Reference Areas Draft recommendations are out

That URL gives:

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The lo-res download is at:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24165932/RSGresources/DraftFinalReport_9June11.pdf

Solenteers may be interested to know that the following sites (ie, most of the Solent) are included...


Norris to Ryde
Bembridge Ledges
The Needles
Wootton Old Mill Pond
Offshore South West Corner
Osborne House Beach
Bembridge
St Catherine’s Point West
Yarmouth to Cowes
Newtown Harbour
Bosham & Itchenor Creeks
Stalked Jellyfish (within Alum Bay)
Portsmouth Harbour
Culver Spit
 
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Tried reading it but got bored, does it say what it plans doing at these sites? or is it just an updated list of chosen sites?
 
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Thanks Twister Ken, but the maps are not really readable at the low res, have you found another link that works?
Initial reading of the report is daunting. Talk about designed by a committee, this scheme seems to be a route to exercise control by baffling with newspeak, burying what the are up to in carefully cross referenced studies of something.
Jobs for the boys, restrictions for the rest of us, all in the eco-warrier best tradition.
The seahorse protected by these guys will definitely come out as a sea camel.
 
The important parts are the reference areas. There seems to only be two in the Solent area that may have a large impact on us. The first is Osborne bay, although I would like to see how they will stop anchoring there, especially in Cowes week. The other is Newtown creek, although as I read it in the report that NT may install more bouys.

Having said all this, the MCZ that are not reference sites have no commitment as to what is proposed, 'further discussions' being the caveat.

As usual Balanced Seas operate far from their 'Get involved' as indicated on their web site.
 
balanced seas 'final draft'

for high res.
left click fails.
Use right click 'save link as ' as they state.That works.
 
prv said:
Hold on, they're proposing to ban anchoring in Newtown Creek?

Pete
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Newtown is one of the reference areas, and as I read it (happy to be proved wrong) will be a no anchor zone.

Stupid thing with this, many of the species that live in NC, and I dont doubt there will be many, will have already established themselves out of harms way, because in my experience, NC is like a ploughed field!

But dont argue with a constipationist, the BBC will broadcast the lies for them if challeged.
 
Looks like scrubbing off at Itchenor will be at risk too.... HM won't like that - good source of additional income!

I downloaded the Medium Sized PDf and had a flick through - just WHO is going to read and inwardly digest all that lot !!

Right - back to the SQL code! ;)
 
fireball said:
Looks like scrubbing off at Itchenor will be at risk too.... HM won't like that - good source of additional income!

I downloaded the Medium Sized PDf and had a flick through - just WHO is going to read and inwardly digest all that lot !!

Right - back to the SQL code! ;)
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Possibly not. It looks that the oyster people in Chi harbour have asked to have a protection area established to help restock the low numbers currently there. This is not a reference area (which would exclude all human activity) but rather a MCZ to (probably) stop any oyster harvesting in the area.

When you consider the large number of boats leaching antifoul in Bosham, Itchenor and Chi marina, a bit of pressure washing at Itchenor will be a very small % of the total.
 
Mark-1 said:
Why are they so bloody vague about what they intend to actually do?
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Because they dont know themselves yet. They have to produce a report, and they have to include things that have not been decided. Try pinning any of these Zone groups down, and you will find them as slippery as the eelgrass! I have more than once had my knuckles rapped for passing info directly from these reports in case people take it is a 'decision'. So NOTHING IS FINAL in these reports I am relaying - got it folks!

I have put a brief summary up on the Studland thread of the main points, and as soon as time allows, will have a fuller summary of the BS area proposals to post here under the Studland sticky and the BORGs site.

But - nothing is decided, and in many locations, discussion is 'ongoing' which means there are no final decisions yet
 
galadriel said:
As usual Balanced Seas operate far from their 'Get involved' as indicated on their web site.
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If you do try to get involved then they complain in their report that: 'concerns have resulted in extensive lobbying of the project team, the public authorities currently involved in the area, and Members of Parliament'. (page 296)
 
oldharry said:
So NOTHING IS FINAL in these reports I am relaying - got it folks!
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Understood. And thanks, as ever, for the vital work you are doing.

As I understand it, there are already no-anchor bits in part of Newtown Creek for oysterbeds. Can't they just measure those bits?

Pete
 
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