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Blue Belt tuna tagging programme underway in St Helena

Posted by: Serena Wright, Posted on: 26 March 2019 - Categories: Blue Belt, Enforcement, marine conservation
This photo was taken in St Helena showing a skipjack tuna being caught

A Blue Belt tuna tagging programme is taking place in St Helena as part of a wider project tagging 120,000 tropical tuna species from across the Atlantic.

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10 updates you might have missed from the Marine Management Organisation in July 2018

Posted by: Amy Wardlaw, MMO, Posted on: 3 August 2018 - Categories: MMO corporate
July blog round up news MMO

...to promote guidance on marine wildlife watching. Some of our marine officers spotted a pod of dolphins while patrolling the Lyme Bay area with Devon and Severn IFCA. Seals and...

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Blue Belt: research, monitoring and education in St Helena

Posted by: Jake Turnbull, Communications advisor (MMO) and Amy Wardlaw, MMO, Posted on: 23 July 2018 - Categories: Blue Belt
marine conservation Lee-ann

...into in the wider Atlantic tuna management from ICCAT. Together with my colleagues, I also undertake annual underwater habitat and abundance surveys, monitoring both fish and invertebrates at specific sites...

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Blue Belt: getting to know the St Helena marine conservation team

Posted by: Amy Wardlaw, MMO, Posted on: 11 July 2018 - Categories: Blue Belt
martin cranfield research

As part of our series of articles about our Blue Belt partnership with the St Helena Government we learn more about Martin Cranfield, marine conservation worker. 

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Blue Belt: interview with Pelagic Project Officer, St Helena Government

Posted by: Amy Wardlaw, MMO, Posted on: 27 June 2018 - Categories: Blue Belt
St helena Blue Belt

Alison Small, Pelagic Project Officer for the Marine Section of St Helena Government explains her work and involvement with the UK Government’s Blue Belt programme.

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Blue Belt: working with the St Helena Government

Posted by: Marine Conservation Officer (St Helena), Posted on: 20 June 2018 - Categories: Blue Belt
Rhys tagging

The first in a series of articles on the work of the St Helena Government in support of the Blue Belt programme. Rhys Hobbs, Marine Conservation Officer, discusses his work.

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