{"id":617,"date":"2009-10-07T18:22:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T17:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bxttlines.wordpress.com\/?p=617"},"modified":"2009-10-07T18:22:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T17:22:26","slug":"sea-angling-strategy-group-makes-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/10\/07\/sea-angling-strategy-group-makes-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea angling strategy group makes progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ENVIRONMENT minister Richard Lochhead has won cautious praise for following up quickly on his pledge to create a Scottish sea angling strategy group.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_619\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-619\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/lochead-launch-300px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-619 \" title=\"Lochead-launch-300px\" src=\"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/lochead-launch-300px.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Lochhead launches the economic report\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Lochhead, left, launches the economic report in July with Ian Burrett of SSACN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Steve Bastiman, chairman of the Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network (<a title=\"SSACN, letter from Lochhead, opens in new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ssacn.org\/a-letter-from-c-s-lochhead\" target=\"_blank\">SSACN<\/a>), the principal campaigners for Government action to protect and revitalise inshore fish stocks, revealed today that it has had a preliminary to get the group underway.<\/p>\n<p>Bastiman said tonight:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe initial meeting was very informal, but at the moment we are very encouraged by the progress that\u2019s being made towards getting a strategy group in place.\u201d A further meeting later this month is planned to begin creation of the strategy itself.<\/p>\n<p>A Government-sponsored report published in July put the value of recreational sea angling to the Scottish economy, at \u00a3140m a year.  Fishing off the Mull of Galloway to launch the report, Lochhead announced the creation of a group to help create a development strategy for the sport.<\/p>\n<p>SSACN says its objectives will, in no specific order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>identify how aspects of the <a title=\"Marine Bill leaflet, opens in new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scotland.gov.uk\/Publications\/2009\/09\/28115722\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Marine Bill<\/a>\/Marine      Park legislation may impact sea angling<\/li>\n<li>ensure the future of those stocks of interest      to sea anglers<\/li>\n<li>identify key elements that are going to play a      significant part in the future of sea angling<\/li>\n<li>determine the processes by which sea angling      can contribute to the wider marine strategies<\/li>\n<li>ensure stock management frameworks adequately      reflect the needs of the sea angling sector<\/li>\n<li>ensure sea angling opportunities are not      artificially restricted.<\/li>\n<li>identify activities by which we can increase      the awareness and understanding of sea angling<\/li>\n<li>increase opportunities for the socially and      physically disadvantaged<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bastiman wants anglers to comment on these topics to ensure they have captured the key issues. Comment here, or email SSACN at <a href=\"mailto:contact@ssacn.org\" target=\"_blank\">contact@ssacn.org<\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Related Stories:<\/h5>\n<p><a title=\"Pollack politics, opens in new window\" href=\"http:\/\/bxttlines.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/30\/pollack-politics-on-the-mull\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pollack politics on the Mull<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Lochhead pledges . . . opens in new window\" href=\"http:\/\/bxttlines.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/29\/lochhead-pledges-strategy-plan-for-scottish-sea-angling\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lochhead pledges strategy . . .<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENVIRONMENT minister Richard Lochhead has won cautious praise for following up quickly on his pledge to create a Scottish sea angling strategy group. Steve Bastiman, chairman of the Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network (SSACN), the principal campaigners for Government action to protect and revitalise inshore fish stocks, revealed today that it has had a preliminary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}