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The Coastal Communities Network is a collaboration of locally-focused community groups, guided by the belief that coastal communities across Scotland are well placed to harness long-term solutions to ensure healthy, well-managed seas. The Network provides the means to establish a strong communication and action platform for building the community voice within marine conservation and management in Scotland.
Craignish Restoration of Marine and Coastal Habitat (CROMACH) was established to give local people a voice in marine management. It aims to encourage and promote sustainable use of local waters for recreation, fishing and other marine activities whilst protecting and allowing recovery of biodiversity and natural processes in Loch Craignish, the Sound of Jura and the Firth of Lorn, and the wider marine environment. As a community group CROMACH also raises awareness within the community on marine issues and promotes and seeks to carry out research, surveys and investigations of the local marine environment.
COAST is a community organisation, set up in 1995, working for the protection and restoration of the marine environment around Arran and the Clyde. It is recognised worldwide as one of the UK’s leading community marine conservation organisations. They were responsible for the establishment of Scotland’s first No Take Zone in Lamlash Bay. They are now working towards effective management of the South Arran Marine Protected Area (MPA).
The Sustainable Inshore Fisheries Trust is a Scottish charity founded in 2011, to promote the sustainable management of Scotland’s inshore waters so that they provide the maximum long term socio-economic benefits to all Scotland’s coastal communities.
An evolving entity that emerged urgently during October 2012 in Sleat (pron. Slate), the peninsula at the south end of the Isle of Skye, in response to a sequence of four aggressive planning permission applications submitted to The Highland Council by Norwegian aquaculture companies Marine Harvest and Hjaltland Seafarms Ltd (now Grieg Seafood ASA) who wanted to install industrial scale net-cage salmon farms in Lochs Slapin and Eishort.
Sea Change Wester Ross is a local group based around the shores of the Wester Ross Marine Protected Area set up to encourage more local say in the management of inshore waters and our MPA. Sea Change wants to support the socio-economic recovery of the area by promoting sustainable seas and fishing vital to the social fabric of our community as well as boost marine tourism.
Skye Marine Concern aims to halt and reverse the expansion of salmon farming in the Skye area and beyond.
The Skye Seas Survey Initiative (SSSi) is a community based project for the conservation of Loch Eishort, Loch Slapin and Loch Scavaig while enhancing local employment prospects and socio-economic benefits for the community.
Wildfish is the UK’s voice for fish and water conservation. We are the only UK charity campaigning for wild fish and where they live. Our goal is for UK waters that support abundant and sustainable populations of wild fish and all other water-dependent wildlife.
CAOLAS (also Gaelic for ‘narrow neck of water’) stands for the Loch Sunart and Sound of Mull ‘Community Association of Lochs and Sounds’. CAOLAS came together in 2015 following the designation of Loch Sunart and the Sound of Mull as Marine Protected Areas. It aims to raise awareness of the unique marine environment and to encourage community involvement in its protection, preservation and sustainability.
Help us to protect this wonderful place from the creeping industrialisation which threatens to damage its unique environment, wildlife and the beauty of its surroundings for local people and visitors alike.
Mission Blue inspires action to explore and protect the ocean. Led by legendary oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle, Mission Blue is uniting a global coalition to inspire an upwelling of public awareness, access and support for a worldwide network of Marine Protected Areas.
Based on the Isle of Mull, HWDT has been leading the way for the conservation of whales, dolphins and porpoises in the waters of western Scotland for over two decades. Our research data are provided to the Scottish Government to inform protection measures for minke whales, Risso’s dolphins, harbour porpoises, and basking sharks across Hebridean seas. We work directly with communities to encourage stewardship of our rich seas and education programmes reach out to over 20,000 people each year to highlight the importance of the marine environment and encourage people to take responsibility for protecting it for future generations.
Project Baseline is a global call to action for the most important environmental cause of our time: to protect and sustain the world’s rapidly diminishing fresh water and marine ecosystems, and the treasures contained within them. Project Baseline UK furthers these objectives in the UK by supporting and developing national and local project teams.