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Netgain MCZ meeting Cullrercoats11th January.
I attended the 3pm meeting along with Alan Charlton (Northern Fed) Sam Harris (Angling Trust) The meeting was facilitated by a professional independent company along with netgain staff and gave an overview of netgain and time lines. You must remember the law is already in place to implement any MCZ in the form of the Marine & Coastal access Act, you have already had an opportunity to have your say on that during the consultation period and many of you did individually and at the meeting in Newbiggin. netgain based in Hull, is aiming to work with as many sea user and interest groups as possible to plan new Marine Conservation Zones throughout their project area, which runs from the Scottish border to Felixstowe out to 200 miles and up all rivers to fresh water and I believe the mean high tide mark and it will be Stakeholder led. This massive area will be formed into 4 hubs our hub being North East Just South of Hartlepool to Berwick, the 3 others being Yorkshire& Humber, Lincolnshire and finally East of England. The hubs will have a stakeholder advisory panel, speak to the liaison officer if you require more info on how to get on one if you were not at the meeting.
Our area liaison officer is Gary Tinsley based at Cullercoats, so for those of you that were unable to attend and require information for your club or yourselves he can be contacted on 0191 222 3061 they have produced an information pack. The Website is up and running and they will be adding a web based GIS mapping system by April
The project in the South West Finding Sanctuary has been going for several years and is the model for the other projects. The below link is worth reading regarding sea anglers and how things are likely to develop up here.
Sea Anglers My Stakeholder Group Get Involved Finding Sanctuary
This process will take place over the next 18 months or longer, about June 2011 when I believe the project is handed back to Natural England
I believe they are working on a questionnaire for sea Anglers.
I made enquiries with the Stakeholder manager about talking to clubs and individuals I would be prepared to organise this if enough interest was shown.
As I said at Newbiggin the licence issue was but just one, there might be more to come, I suspect around bait digging and possible problems for boat anglers.
It is important that some organisation club or national association represents us.
There was a diverse collection of interest at the meeting from wind farmers, NT, RSPB, commercial fisherman, EA and others. An interest on the stakeholder advisory panel would be good. None of this is bad news for us as yet, but we must be part of the process. I can be contacted via the Amble Sea angling Club web site. Amble Sea Angling Club
I attended the 3pm meeting along with Alan Charlton (Northern Fed) Sam Harris (Angling Trust) The meeting was facilitated by a professional independent company along with netgain staff and gave an overview of netgain and time lines. You must remember the law is already in place to implement any MCZ in the form of the Marine & Coastal access Act, you have already had an opportunity to have your say on that during the consultation period and many of you did individually and at the meeting in Newbiggin. netgain based in Hull, is aiming to work with as many sea user and interest groups as possible to plan new Marine Conservation Zones throughout their project area, which runs from the Scottish border to Felixstowe out to 200 miles and up all rivers to fresh water and I believe the mean high tide mark and it will be Stakeholder led. This massive area will be formed into 4 hubs our hub being North East Just South of Hartlepool to Berwick, the 3 others being Yorkshire& Humber, Lincolnshire and finally East of England. The hubs will have a stakeholder advisory panel, speak to the liaison officer if you require more info on how to get on one if you were not at the meeting.
Our area liaison officer is Gary Tinsley based at Cullercoats, so for those of you that were unable to attend and require information for your club or yourselves he can be contacted on 0191 222 3061 they have produced an information pack. The Website is up and running and they will be adding a web based GIS mapping system by April
The project in the South West Finding Sanctuary has been going for several years and is the model for the other projects. The below link is worth reading regarding sea anglers and how things are likely to develop up here.
Sea Anglers My Stakeholder Group Get Involved Finding Sanctuary
This process will take place over the next 18 months or longer, about June 2011 when I believe the project is handed back to Natural England
I believe they are working on a questionnaire for sea Anglers.
I made enquiries with the Stakeholder manager about talking to clubs and individuals I would be prepared to organise this if enough interest was shown.
As I said at Newbiggin the licence issue was but just one, there might be more to come, I suspect around bait digging and possible problems for boat anglers.
It is important that some organisation club or national association represents us.
There was a diverse collection of interest at the meeting from wind farmers, NT, RSPB, commercial fisherman, EA and others. An interest on the stakeholder advisory panel would be good. None of this is bad news for us as yet, but we must be part of the process. I can be contacted via the Amble Sea angling Club web site. Amble Sea Angling Club
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