Studland Anchoring

[Ian_Rob]

That’s just the thing it does seem good on the surface but real science suggests it’s not. Eelgrass does capture carbon but the full lifecycle sees this turned into methane which is orders of magnitude worse for the environment. If global warming is what we’re fixing then actually removing eelgrass and rainforests is a better way to go. Of course that causes other issues in other systems so we shouldn’t do that. The only real conclusion I can draw is we should do nothing other than reduce population size. At the very least we should stop paying people to have kids.

As eelgrass is susceptible to disease that can kill it off - as it was in the 1930’s - it would be ludicrous to rely on it for permanent CO2 capture anyway.

 

[ryanroberts]

Just ignore it, nearly everyone else seems to be when I have been out.

 

[st599]

Just noticed, on my iPhone, Navionics plasters the words ‘Marine Conservation Zone’ over the whole of Studland Bay- but there’s no zone or areas marked. Jennycliffe and Cawsand have nothing marked.

Have I not got the correct settings?

The entire bay is a Marine Conservation Zone.

Just ignore it, nearly everyone else seems to be when I have been out.

Then it will go from Voluntary to Mandatory.

 

[Chris CJ]

An interesting article published this morning on Swanage News : Southampton uni , National trust , RYA and Studland Parish council , planet swanage , have sponsored a robotic study of the sea grass to start this month to gain greater understanding of growth of sea grasses to enable how sea grasses can thrive and mooring can accommodate.
it’s a step in the right direction , providing when the results are available NE acknowledge and accept the findings , hopefully conceding with this new data there might be a better solution to the one embarked on

 

[ryanroberts]

Then it will go from Voluntary to Mandatory.

This will happen regardless of the behaviour of boats, might as well enjoy it while we can. The safety exemption is wide open too for the future, attempting to overrule that might even wake the RYA up.

 

[lustyd]

Then it will go from Voluntary to Mandatory.

It will anyway, have you not been paying attention?

 

[oldharry]

Thanks Tranona for your succinct summary of the issues. Spot on specially the 'new religion' aspect, of which NE are the great High Priests, endowed with total infallibility! Anyone who dares disagree is automatically 'cast into outer darkness' and ignored.

Hedgehog 2,: Navionics is correct. The WHOLE bay is an MCZ. The VNAZ applies only to a defined area of the MCZ in which the FOCI. (features of conservation interest) are focussed. Just be glad it doesn't extend across the entirety of Poole Bay as originally planned!

 

[doug748]

An interesting article published this morning on Swanage News : Southampton uni , National trust , RYA and Studland Parish council , planet swanage , have sponsored a robotic study of the sea grass to start this month to gain greater understanding of growth of sea grasses to enable how sea grasses can thrive and mooring can accommodate.
it’s a step in the right direction , providing when the results are available NE acknowledge and accept the findings , hopefully conceding with this new data there might be a better solution to the one embarked on

The robots were also out in Cawsand Bay Plymouth last week.

Seagrass beds that have been classified as healthy on two previous occasions. It will be interesting to see what the now technology reveals to us. .?


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