Wallop! No Scallops
(or very much else!)
Cardigan Bay is being harmed by commercial dredging for scallops. The scale of dredging has grown greatly with as many as 45 large vessels now working the area often for 10 hours or more each day.
Sea fans, sea urchins, crabs, lobster, starfish, mussel beds, brittle stars, and many other organisms are killed, let alone disturbed by dredging.
There is no restriction on numbers of boats licensed.
Boats can even operate in Special Areas of Conservation set up to protect habitats and species such as dolphins, seals and lampreys.
Either we need a ban on this activity or we need a very serious look at how scallops can be harvested in a more sustainable way. The current free-for-all cannot go on.
The marine environment is important – we depend on it. The species within it are beautiful and valuable. Let’s protect Cardigan Bay.
Express your concerns to Ms Elin Jones, Minister for Rural Affairs, Welsh Assembly Government, 5th Floor, Ty Hywel, Cardiff Bay, CF99 1NA. email her at: Correspondence.Elin.Jones@wales.gsi.gov.uk. Write to Dr Stephen Atkins, Chief Executive, North Western and North Wales Sea Fisheries Committee and ask him what on earth they are up to? Address: 1 Preston Street, Carnforth, Lancashire. LA5 9BY. Email: office@nwnwsfc.org
Walop! Dim Sgolop
(na dim llawer arall chwaith)
Mae Bae Ceredigion yn cael ei niweidio trwy lanhau masnachol ain gylfgrigyn. Mae graddfa y glanhau wedi cynyddu fel bod cymaint a 45 o longau mawr yn gweithio’r ardal, yn fynych lan i 10 awr neu ragor bob dydd.
Mae môr gwyntyll, môr draenogod, crancod, cimwch, sêr y môr, gwelyau cregyn glas, sêr y mor bigog, a llawer o fodau organig eraill yn cael eu danistrio heb son am yr holl aflonyddu.
Does dim cyfyngiad ar y nifer o gychod sydd a thrwydded.
Mae cychod hyd yn aed yn medru qweithredu mewn Mannau Cadwreithiol Arbennig sydd wedi eu sefydlu i warchod rhywogaeth cynefin fel dolffiniaid, morloi a’r llysywen bendoll.
Naill mae angen gwaharddiad ar y math yma o weithgarwch neu mae’n rhaid edrych sut y medrir cynaeafu sgalop mewn ffordd mwy cynnaladwy. Ni ellir caniatau y rhyddid presenaol i barhau.
Mae’r amgylchedd morol yn bwysig – rydym yn dibynnu arno. Mae’r rhywogaeth o’i fewn yn brydferth ac yn werthfawr. Gadewch i ni amddiffyn Bae Ceredigion.
Mynegwch eich pryderon i Ms Elin Jones, Gweinidog Materion Gwledig, Llywodraeth y Cynilliad, 5ed Llawr, Tý Hywel, Bae Caerdydd, CF99 1NA. ebostiwch hi: correspondence.Elin.Jones@wales.gsi.gov.uk Ysgrifennwch at Dr Stephen Atkins, Prif Weithredwr, GogleddCymru a’r Gogledd Orllewin Pwyllgor Pysgota Môr yn gofyn iddynt beth ar y ddaear sydd yn mynd ymlaen? Cyfeiriad : 1 Preston Street, Cranforth, Lancashire, LA5 9BY. Ebost: office@nwnwsfc.org
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