HIGHLY Protected Marine Areas may be dead. But round Scotland’s coastline, communities are busily creating an effective alternative to improve…
But they do call time on exploitation by developers and unsustainable fishing activity getting the go-ahead without communities having more than a tokenistic and generally belated say.
The location of control is changing from Bute House to the Scottish shoreline. I wonder if Fergus Ewing approves? Achieving this community-led designation will be onerous and time consuming, but MACCOLL has signed up around a third of local residents and pulled local business, government and political interests on board.
“Now we’ve discovered a sense of purpose about the future of our coastline, no-one wants to be left out.” Old fathom maps record an area of the seabed called “skate bank” – so the critically endangered flapper skate once thrived locally. All of this is being researched and recorded – the memories of the last local salmon fisherman and stories of pirates who frequented the Duror coast are as important to the human restoration work of MACCOLL as mapping the contours of the sea-bed.
Might this be the model that puts the Scottish Government’s plans for marine conservation back on track – a grassroots conservation model that’s genuinely “bottom up”, flexible about sustainable commercial activity and mercifully free from Holyrood micro-management? Maybe.
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