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It's a legal requirement to prevent harm to our seabed! Scottish Ministers lose court appeal, as landmark judgment upheld by senior judges📷
@ScotGov must overhaul its approach to licensing damaging fisheries particularly scallop dredging
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⚖️ We won! The Court of Session just ruled in favour of our judicial review of the Scottish Govt's approach to licensing scallop dredging & bottom-trawling.
This is a win for environmental justice & those who have campaigned to protect our seas. So what comes next?
We're delighted that the Court of Session has upheld the Judicial Review by our client @TheOpenSeas to Marine Scotland, on which the Court accepted our arguments that Marine Scotland did not make their decisions in accordance with the National Marine Plan. https://t.co/WGgRptm4E5
"This decision is a major win for environmental justice & everyone who has campaigned to protect our seas... But it is a hollow victory, because it reveals that Scottish Ministers have been unlawfully neglecting their legal duty to protect our seas for the last eight years.”
Fisheries managers have responsibility for sustainability AND biodiversity, for the scallops themselves but ALSO the seabed they live on.
Huge kudos to @TheOpenSeas for legally proving this often contested fact in Scotland.
Fantastic result for our marine #wildlife & #biodiversity as it’s official: the Scottish Government’s current approach to licensing of #scallop#dredging & bottom-trawling has been ruled “unlawful.” Now time for action to halt, and ideally reverse, the damage!! 🙏🥳🐬🐙🦞🦑🪼🐠