{"id":208989,"date":"2025-12-24T18:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208989\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T18:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:27:08","slug":"plans-to-create-marine-protected-area-around-sark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208989\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to create Marine Protected Area around Sark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Current rules on Sark already ban dredging, restrict trawling, and enforce closed seasons for lobsters, crabs and ormers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sue Daly, from La Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Sercquaise marine biology section, said: &#8220;Sark&#8217;s seas are a treasure trove of life, from eelgrass meadows to seabird colonies, and they deserve lasting protection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the new plans would &#8220;ensure these fragile habitats continue to thrive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Freddie Watson, Channel Islands project manager for Blue Marine Foundation, added: &#8220;A formal Marine Protected Area would place Sark firmly on the global marine protection map, ensuring its waters are safeguarded in the long term, benefitting nature, climate and generations to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chief Pleas will carry out further consultation on the committee&#8217;s recommendations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Current rules on Sark already ban dredging, restrict trawling, and enforce closed seasons for lobsters, crabs and ormers.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-208989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}