Sustainable Inshore Fisheries Trust (SIFT)

SIFT was delighted to meet this year's Ocean Defenders as they joined us at the Our Seas #CoastalTestimonies launch in Glasgow last night! Read more and find out where you can join in at @ourseas_scot 🐟🐟🐟🐬🐬

🚨🐟 Overfishing is pushing our ocean to the brink. Four years past the UK's latest deadline to #EndOverfishing, it’s time for REAL government action. We’ve crafted a bold plan to turn the tide. 🌊 Read our roadmap to #SaveOurSeas 👉bit.ly/oceana-uk-road… 🎣

Listening to Scottish Government RAI committee salmon farming inquiry final hearing - and a lot of the issues in this @WildFishCons open letter calling for 'cost benefit analysis' are being raised heraldscotland.com/news/24719909.…

Open letter calls on the Scottish Government to urgently commission a cost benefit analysis of salmon farming industry. heraldscotland.com/news/24719909.… Watch the Scottish Parliament's Rural Affairs Committee @SP_RuralAffairs inquiry on salmon farming live here 📺 scottishparliament.tv/meeting/rural-…

I have a free film screening of Britains Hidden Fishes next week in the @GrantArmsHotel visitcairngorms.com/event/evening-… @fms_scotland @SpeyFishBoard @WildFishCons @VisitCairngrms @cairngormsnews

A quick round up of The Future of Clyde Fishing in the Herald yesterday 🐟The key graphs, from whitefish decline to bycatch 🌊 Scot Gov marine science, underfunded and 'shadow' of past self 🐟Scottish Fishermen's Federation OpEd 🌊History of Clyde Fishing heraldscotland.com/news/24684802.…

Yesterday the Scottish Parliament’s Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee considered @SIFTScotland’s petition to sort out the management of a ‘keystone’ species in Scottish waters. 📰Read here for background: news.stv.tv/west-central/m… #ProtectOurSeas #marinelife

The UK Government has released five new Fisheries Management Plans 📑Consultations are now open for draft FMPs aimed at securing the sustainability of UK fish stocks - more information and deadlines 👇 cmscoms.com/?p=41420

The @EU_Commission is calling for #BlueEconomy funding proposals with a focus on regenerative #ocean #farming and algae innovation. The fund is open for applications until 18 February 2025. Find out more here. 👉 loom.ly/kzHa3_8

The four UK fisheries authorities have launched a consultation on revising the deadline to produce further Fisheries Management Plans (FMPs) Find out more and respond at consult.defra.gov.uk/joint-fisherie… by 21 November 2024. Work to develop the Scottish-led FMPs for UK waters is ongoing.

🚨 Consultation Countdown: 4 DAYS ⏲️ Bottom-trawl fishing bulldozes our ocean floor, decimating marine life. The Scottish Government is consulting on whether to ban #bottomtrawling from its marine protected areas. We have 4 days left. ACT NOW: act.oceana.org/page/155477/da… 🛑🌊

Another breeder of wrasse (used as cleaner fish to peck lice from farmed salmon), stops supply after their entire stock of two species of wrasse died. Salmon producers are stopping using wrasse in Norway. Why not @scotgov ? @ScotGovMarine @MairiGougeon intrafish.no/fiskehelse/no-…

We must do everything in our power to save Atlantic salmon - a key species in our freshwater ecosystem in the UK. Follow this link to find out more about how we can help this amazing fish here 👇 wildfish.org/project/atlant…

🚨The @EnvAgency 's 2023 assessment shows salmon stocks in England are at their lowest level since records began. This report should be a wake-up call. Atlantic salmon are on the frontline of the biodiversity crisis and they are running out of time... gov.uk/government/new…

17.5 million farmed salmon died in 2023. What happens to them once they are removed from the pens? A new investigation published in @thetimes yesterday shows illegal disposal of rotting and diseased fish at one of Scotland's coastal beauty spots. 1 of 3 thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…

Tomorrow's roundtable panel line up! 👇 🐟Dr Ralph Bickerdike @scotseafarms 🐟David Brown @CookeScotland 🐟Ben Hadfield @MowiScotlandLtd 🐟Kimberley McKinnell, Bakkafrost Scotland 🐟Constance Pattillo @WesterRossSalmo 🐟@tavishscott @SalmonScotland

Have you signed our petition to help #SaveScottishWrasse yet? petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE21… Wrasse are long-lived & key species in ecosystems, associated with priority marine features like rocky reefs. But we don’t know how long it takes them to recolonise an ecosystem if removed.

Final few days to apply 👇👇

@DaleVince @RSPCA_official x.com/siftscotland/s…

The salmon farming industry is a disaster - for the environment, for marine life, and for the communities that depend on healthy ecosystems. The fact that it's still being certified by @RSPCA_official is just wrong... We need transparency and action to stop this destruction. Time to drop the @rspcaassured scheme and hold these companies accountable.