Rockpooling
02 August 2020
Charlotte Owen talks us through the joys of rockpooling
Archive of: Marine
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Help Our Kelp update
30 July 2020
Please write to your local Sussex MP to ask for The Sussex Near Shore Trawling Byelaw to be implemented to Help Our Kelp
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Six tonnes of fishing gear collected and recycled
29 July 2020
Wild Coast Sussex Project Manager Nikki Hills is delighted to announce that an amazing six tonnes of end of life fishing gear has been collected by commercial fishing community in Eastbourne, Worthing and Littlehampton and will be recycled.
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Marine Litter
27 July 2020
As Coronavirus lockdown measures continue to ease, there has been a noticeable spike in the amount of rubbish being left on beaches as more people are able to spend more time at the coast. Find out what you can do to help.
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Species of the day: Common Shore Crab
08 June 2020
Today is International ‘World Oceans Day’ - in celebration of our magnificent marine environments, today’s blog features a familiar denizen of British shores, the Common Shore Crab
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Review of Highly Protected Marine Areas published today
08 June 2020
HPMAs would give the strictest possible environmental protections – all damaging activities would be banned
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Nudibranchs AKA Seaslugs
05 May 2020
Ella Garrud spends lockdown thinking about what she might be seeing in rockpools, such as nudibranchs or seaslugs, which are not closely related to garden slugs.
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Sussex Seahorses
03 April 2020
We have had a few reports recently of sightings of one our most elusive marine creatures – the small yet charismatic seahorse.
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Goose Barnacle, Barnacle Goose
06 March 2020
Goose Barnacles, can be found in their thousands still clinging to their driftwood raft on the strandline, They once puzzled people for hundreds of years.
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Slipper Limpet
02 March 2020
Along our Sussex beaches there are millions of shells of the Common Slipper Limpet - so named because the empty shells resemble tiny slippers up to 50mm long.