Appropriate Assessments Case Study 1_Cockle fishery in the Solway

Summary

Cumbria Sea Fisheries Committee (CSFC) applied to allow the removal of cockles by hydraulic suction dredging and hand-gathering from the cockle bed situated at Beckfoot. The view of the CSFC was that significant impacts on the integrity of the area would be unlikely, particularly given the 2003 Fisheries Research Services (FRS) survey of grounds on the northern side of the Solway that showed a vast increase in total biomass in excess of 33,000 tonnes.

Author

• Mark Gray

Publication date

01 January 2007