{"id":925,"date":"2010-10-04T10:12:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T09:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bxttlines.wordpress.com\/?p=925"},"modified":"2010-10-04T10:12:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T09:12:59","slug":"925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/10\/04\/925\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it too late for our oceans? asks Attenborough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TUNE in tonight to <a title=\"BBC-2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00v7tmd\" target=\"_blank\">BBC-2<\/a> where David Attenborough takes a long, hard look at the state of the planet&#8217;s oceans following one of the most ambitious scientific studies of our time and asks the question: Is it too late to save the diversity of our seas?<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 307px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wwwimg.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/i\/512xn\/29c5745eb0872e0025d58777d393695014d472e8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"David Attenborough\" src=\"http:\/\/wwwimg.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/i\/512xn\/29c5745eb0872e0025d58777d393695014d472e8.jpg\" alt=\"David Attenborough\" width=\"307\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attenborough: Is it too late?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, Scotland&#8217;s environment minister, Richard Lochhead, has signalled a progressive approach to  marine management by undertaking to lead a review of the Clyde  following a meeting last month.<\/p>\n<p>A group of concerned Clyde stakeholders,  including commercial fishermen and the Community of Arran Seabed Trust (COAST), met\u00a0  Lochhead at Holyrood on September 23.<\/p>\n<p>The  meeting was arranged and attended by\u00a0 Cunninghame  North MSP Kenneth Gibson. Read more <a title=\"COAST Clyde review details\" href=\"http:\/\/arrancoast.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=5bae0f8d5eca566c99ec0f8f9&amp;id=c9b368601d&amp;e=e01cf6d98a\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also on a local level, the Scottish Sea Anglers Conservation Network (<a title=\"SSACN\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ssacn.org\" target=\"_blank\">SSACN<\/a>), has won a conservation award for its work in campaigning for threatened marine species and lobbying for public policy changes.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Dreamstore SSACN award\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamstore.org\/update\/2010\/09\/dreamstore-active-conservation-award\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dreamstore <\/a>angling education foundation said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an independent charity, the <strong><em>SSACN <\/em><\/strong> has undertaken outstanding work in creating focus on conservation  issues and the marine environment, especially those affecting sea  anglers. Its education, environmental awareness, research and events  programme is an exemplary example of the power of harnessing voluntary  endeavour in conservation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong><em>SSACN<\/em><\/strong> has worked hard in building  collaborative partnerships, and sought practical solutions to problems  created by inefficient and ineffective fisheries management and  practices which have left many species void in several areas and have  destroyed many habitats. This includes their <em>Give Fish A Chance (GFAC)<\/em> awareness campaign, and the very impressive <em>Scottish Shark Tagging Programme<\/em> which they have popularised through <em>Tagathons<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next SSACN <a title=\"SSAC Tagathon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ssacn.org\/ssacn-tagathon-1314-november-2\" target=\"_blank\">Tagathon <\/a>is in lochs Sunart and Etive on November 13-14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUNE in tonight to BBC-2 where David Attenborough takes a long, hard look at the state of the planet&#8217;s oceans following one of the most ambitious scientific studies of our time and asks the question: Is it too late to save the diversity of our seas? Meanwhile, Scotland&#8217;s environment minister, Richard Lochhead, has signalled a&#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":[11,114,119,144,172,193],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925"}],"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=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}