Please get it right, MBM

[Geoffs]

This months MBM has an article about Poole Harbour, and mentions Studland Bay.

Regulars will be aware of the intense debate on anchoring in Studland Bay, developing on Scuttlebutt.

The article states yellow buoys mark a No Anchoring Zone. It is NOT a No Anchoring Zone, but a Voluntary No Anchoring Zone. There is a subtle difference.

The article further states that this zone is to protect the Seahorse population. IT IS NOT. It is there to try and ascertain the effect of anchoring.

There is no published data that indicates anchoring harms the Sea Horses or their environment. That's not to say it doesn't, no one knows. But it's a bland statement by MBM.

Seems another example of the publishers siding with the 'Sea Horse Huggers', and as customer, that bugs me! Come on MBM, be on our side for once.

 

[Major Catastrophe]

Mebbe MBM dare not set foot in Scuttlebutt, where they could have got a proper story.

Nice to see that SHT has been tripped up by Maxi77

 

[Nick_H]

Seems another example of the publishers siding with the 'Sea Horse Huggers', and as customer, that bugs me! Come on MBM, be on our side for once.

do you really think they're siding with the tree horse buggers. More likely just a bit lazy research of the issue surely

 

[Nautibusiness]

Geoffs

Not siding with the huggers in anyway as I am a Poole boater who from time to time anchors in Studland.

But we know that the Sea Horses to live in the eel grass which is found throughout the bay.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that dragging anywhere between 5 and 30Kg of anchor and it's respective chain through that eel grass might pee the sea horses off a little. I'd liken it to coming home oneday and finding that the new Weymouth relief road has been built through my back garden?

Sorry. I know the post was about MBM doing a little more research / getting it right. I just wanted to suggest that anchors do tend to furrow soft sand, mud and eel grass a little.