{"id":957,"date":"2010-11-05T12:38:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T11:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bxttlines.wordpress.com\/?p=957"},"modified":"2010-11-05T12:38:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T11:38:04","slug":"arran-symposium-heralds-new-force-for-sustainable-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/11\/05\/arran-symposium-heralds-new-force-for-sustainable-seas\/","title":{"rendered":"Arran symposium heralds &#8216;new force&#8217; for sustainable seas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrancoast.com\/images\/stories\/sypm%20delegates%20d%20ingham%20reduced.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"COAST Symposium 2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arrancoast.com\/images\/stories\/sypm%20delegates%20d%20ingham%20reduced.jpg\" alt=\"COAST Symposium 2010\" width=\"590\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Delegates at the COAST marine symposium on Arran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">GROWING confidence about the emergence of a new force in the drive for a more sustainable approach to sea fishing around Scotland was evident at the first symposium organised by <a title=\"COAST, opens in new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arrancoast.com\" target=\"_blank\">COAST<\/a>, the Arran-based marine pressure group.<\/p>\n<p>Some 40 international delegates from all fields of marine policy and science took part in the weekend event which was jointly organised by with the West of England University.<\/p>\n<p>Held at Arran Outdoor Centre overlooking the Lamlash Bay &#8216;No Take Zone&#8217;, the symposium focused on knowledge sharing and the spread of awareness for better marine management of Scotland&#8217;s seas.<\/p>\n<p>Delegates included Holyrood and Westminser MPs, representatives of Marine Scotland,  Scottish Natural Heritage, and the National Trust as well as eminent scientists such Professor Callum Roberts of York University, co-author of the recent damning report on commercial over-fishing in the Clyde estuary.<\/p>\n<p>COAST (the Community of Arran Seabed Trust) says new inter-organisational links were forged at the event and community experiences of marine conservation were exchanged as a \u201creference bank\u201d for future action.<\/p>\n<p>Read a full report of the presentations <a title=\"COAST marine symposium 2010\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arrancoast.com\/events\/symposium-2010.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; GROWING confidence about the emergence of a new force in the drive for a more sustainable approach to sea fishing around Scotland was evident at the first symposium organised by COAST, the Arran-based marine pressure group. Some 40 international delegates from all fields of marine policy and science took part in the weekend event&#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":[16,43,46,114,118,119,129,199],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957"}],"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=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}