Oh God! Look what we have done now!!

martyn78 said:
Neil Garrick-Maidment, director of the Seahorse Trust, said the colony was one of the most important in Europe and played an important role in the food chain.
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They're OK with a bit of chilli sauce as a street side snack, but I don't think they're main stream save the children food stuff.:rolleyes:

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What do you mean, I not taking this seriously?

just a lot of Headline grabbing Bollox.
 
Aren't Neil G-M and Steve Trewhella supposed to be on the same side?

Bit contradictory aren't they? Looking at quotes from the same Telegraph article.

"Neil Garrick-Maidment, director of Seahorse Trust, said... We have had experienced divers spend many hours looking for them this year and they literally haven't found any of them. They have disappeared and this is absolutely disastrous.”

"Steve Trewhella, another diver, said he has seen seahorses recently but there are fewer this year because of the cold spring."

I presume they don't speak to each other much!
 
emsworthy said:
Aren't Neil G-M and Steve Trewhella supposed to be on the same side?

Bit contradictory aren't they? Looking at quotes from the same Telegraph article.

"Neil Garrick-Maidment, director of Seahorse Trust, said... We have had experienced divers spend many hours looking for them this year and they literally haven't found any of them. They have disappeared and this is absolutely disastrous.”

"Steve Trewhella, another diver, said he has seen seahorses recently but there are fewer this year because of the cold spring."

I presume they don't speak to each other much!
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There's always been something strange about those two; every time one says or does something particularly stupid or offensive, they have a public row and disown each other.

Then ST turns up to support NGM at meetings, though that may have stopped now; I doubt it as any chance of the Seahorse war hotting up again should see ST coming out to play.

I wonder if all this rubbish in the Mail might ' just happen ' to increase the diving parties they charge for ?
 
ST and NGM generally not on speaking terms now. In fact NGM accused me the other day of 'supporting' Trewhella! I expect ST found that as funny as I did!

But I think you hit the nail on the head, Andy - NGM cant show off his Seahorses to fare payers if the beasties are not around. No wonder he is panicking.

Do you think Seahorses are more likely to read the Telegraph, or the Mail? Serious question this....
 
Well this posh yottie has never anchored his boat anywhere near Studland bay.

I hate being accused for crimes I haven't committed, so I think I might just have to go and drag my anchor there a couple of times on my way down channel this summer, then I'll happily accept all the vitriol that the Daily Mail spouts at me.
 
Twister_Ken said:
Maybe there's business opportunity?

Leave you draggy old CQR's, Bruce-a-likes and Deltas in the locker, and rent one of our super-duper Mansonrocnaspades for your trip to Studders, buried in the first metre or your money back.
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Radio Cornwall ran an interview yesterday with the conservation side on the new zones benefit to the local community of £3.5 billion, it's going to be a benefit to all water user's who don't touch the sea bed.

Like the interview on radio Cornwall earlier this with the warden at Lundy Isle, when they started the conservation there was 3 types of crab, now one had disappeared , one had almost died out, but the big one was doing okay, and the lobsters were getting bigger, but they were waiting for the eco system to stabilize.

Funny old world.

Brian
 
halcyon said:
Radio Cornwall ran an interview yesterday with the conservation side on the new zones benefit to the local community of £3.5 billion, it's going to be a benefit to all water user's who don't touch the sea bed.

Like the interview on radio Cornwall earlier this with the warden at Lundy Isle, when they started the conservation there was 3 types of crab, now one had disappeared , one had almost died out, but the big one was doing okay, and the lobsters were getting bigger, but they were waiting for the eco system to stabilize.

Funny old world.

Brian
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Any chance the bigger species has eaten the other smaller ones? S'nature innit!
 
Govt minister - Richard Clayborne? - was on R4 today programme this morning at about 0630(?) being grilled over the decision to only institute 30-something of the 100-something zones proposed. He was quite robust on the lack of evidence for many of them. R4 interviewer suggested that it has been suggested that divers and anglers were gonna be the main beneficiaries and that an academic study had concluded that they might contribute - was it £1.7bn - to the cost of the exercise. That seemed to justify the description 'ivory towers' to me.

Spokeswomen from the Marine Conservation Soc. was treated rather more gently by Ms R4 but seemed to be struggling a bit although she wasn't challenged on the evidence question.

No doubt the intrepid can find it on iPlayer.
 
Twister_Ken said:
Govt minister - Richard Clayborne? - was on R4 today programme this morning at about 0630(?) being grilled over the decision to only institute 30-something of the 100-something zones proposed. He was quite robust on the lack of evidence for many of them. R4 interviewer suggested that it has been suggested that divers and anglers were gonna be the main beneficiaries and that an academic study had concluded that they might contribute - was it £1.7bn - to the cost of the exercise. That seemed to justify the description 'ivory towers' to me.

Spokeswomen from the Marine Conservation Soc. was treated rather more gently by Ms R4 but seemed to be struggling a bit although she wasn't challenged on the evidence question.

No doubt the intrepid can find it on iPlayer.
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Sounds to me as though DEFRA are taking seriously the scientific challenge spearheaded by our own Mike Simons, the RYA and SBPA, and are simply not prepared to create legislation based on uncertain scientific opinion. Which is basically about what we had hoped for right through.

Time will tell.
 
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