Research carried out by the Trust revealed that Scotland\u2019s Inshore Fishery Groups (IFGs), which are responsible for managing inshore waters, are falling behind in terms of resources and overall remit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is little doubt that the management and compliance monitoring of Scotland\u2019s inshore waters is being starved of resources and falls far behind the situation in England,\u201d said Charles Millar, director, SIFT.<\/p>\n
The coastline of mainland Scotland, together with its main islands, covers more than 11,500 miles \u2013 almost double that of mainland England and its main islands.<\/p>\n
Despite this, England\u2019s network of ten Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authorities (IFCAs) has a combined annual budget of over \u00a38.6m, compared to Scotland\u2019s 12 IFGs and their \u00a32m a year budget.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn essence Scotland is trying to manage inshore fisheries that cover almost twice the length of England\u2019s coast with less than 25% of the budget. The Scottish Government\u2019s current review of the proposals of IFGs represents a great opportunity for Scotland to redress the balance and show its commitment to the sustainable management of our valuable coastal seas,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
SIFT says it\u2019s also concerned about the encouragement to regenerate inshore habitats and commercial fish stocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Sustainable Inshore Fisheries Trust (SIFT) is calling for \u201cmore ambition\u201d in the management of Scotland\u2019s coastal seas, which it says are massively under-resourced compared to England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5630,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628\/revisions\/5630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5628"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}