{"id":905,"date":"2010-08-30T18:59:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T17:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bxttlines.wordpress.com\/?p=905"},"modified":"2010-08-30T18:59:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T17:59:06","slug":"panorama-features-clyde-ecosystem-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/08\/30\/panorama-features-clyde-ecosystem-meltdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Panorama features Clyde ecosystem &#8216;meltdown&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TUNE in at 8:30 tonight to <a title=\"BBC iPlayer, opens in new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b00tn8vg\/Panorama_Britains_Disappearing_Wildlife\/\" target=\"_blank\">BBC-1&#8217;s Panorama<\/a> when reporter Richard Bilton gets his teeth into the background behind the parlous state of fishing in the Clyde estuary.\u00a0\u00a0 He talks to Professor Callum Roberts, co-author of the recent damning scientific report on over-fishing, as well as Howard Wood chairman of <a title=\"COAST, opens in new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arrancoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">COAST<\/a>, the Community of Arran Seabed Trust, another outspoken critic of government marine policies.<\/p>\n<p>Wood asks: &#8220;Just when is the present Cabinet Secretary going to start managing the Clyde for all its inhabitants and not just for the short term profits of a tiny minority?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>COAST&#8217;s website delivers a broad spread of reports and opinion on the decline of Clyde fishing. It says: &#8220;For over seven years the Clyde has seen virtually no commercial white fish landings. Sea anglers have struggled to catch a fish at all. The commercial mobile fishermen left in the Clyde rely on dragging and dredging the seabed for the last remaining invertebrates.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a title=\"COAST, call for Government action, opens in new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arrancoast.com\/news\/coast-views-and-comments.html\" target=\"_blank\">their call <\/a>to environment minister Richard Lochhead, seeking a timetable for action.<\/p>\n<h5>Related article:<\/h5>\n<p><a title=\"Clyde report, opens in new window\" href=\"http:\/\/bxttlines.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/06\/firth-of-clyde-on-verge-of-sea-fishing-meltdown-say-scientists\/\" target=\"_blank\">Commercial fishing on verge of extinction . . .<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUNE in at 8:30 tonight to BBC-1&#8217;s Panorama when reporter Richard Bilton gets his teeth into the background behind the parlous state of fishing in the Clyde estuary.\u00a0\u00a0 He talks to Professor Callum Roberts, co-author of the recent damning scientific report on over-fishing, as well as Howard Wood chairman of COAST, the Community of Arran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905"}],"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=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}