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Breaking the Green Tide: Developing innovative techniques to tackle nuisance green seaweed mats in coastal areas of England and France

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Coastal areas of the Channel Manche region (between England and France) have an excess level of nutrients (such as nitrogen) from river run-off and urban discharges, which causes excessive growth of green algal mats. Seaweeds will begin to build up …

Capacity Building in Fisheries Evidence, Networks and Management in the British Virgin Islands

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a group of fisher folk and stakeholders on the beach

Cefas’ Dr Peter Randall recently visited the (British) Virgin Islands (hereafter referred to as the Virgin Islands (VI)) as part of the Darwin Plus Funded Project, “Capacity Building in Fisheries Evidence, Networks and Management in the Virgin Islands”. The project …