Archive of: Marine

  • Living Seas marine recording round-up

    21 December 2020

    Living Seas marine recording round-up

    We have finally reached the end of 2020, and what a year it has been for all the wrong reasons. But we were lucky enough to get out and about on the shore a few times over the summer to create some videos for National Marine Week

     
  • Merry Marine Christmas

    17 December 2020

    Merry Marine Christmas

    Ella Garrud, Living Seas Officer, shares some facts about festive marine wildlife

     
  • All washed up

    29 November 2020

    All washed up

    ​As the winter weather arrives, we often get stormy and turbulent seas, resulting in all sorts of things washed up on our beaches.

     
  • The ocean is good for mental health

    16 November 2020

    The ocean is good for mental health

    Ella Garrud has always known that the ocean is good for her mental health, simply because she always feel better when she’s there. But is there actual research that shows the ocean is beneficial for people’s mental health?

     
  • Aquatic Creepy Critters

    26 October 2020

    Aquatic Creepy Critters

    ​The oceans are full of strange and scary looking beasts, but there are some creatures which are ready to celebrate Halloween all year round!

     
  • Wild Beach Training

    22 October 2020

    Wild Beach Training

    Wild Beach is based on a fundamental respect for children and young people and for their capacity to instigate, test and maintain curiosity in the world around them. Ella Garrud tells us about Wild Beach training on Holywell Beach in Eastbourne

     
  • Unblocktober

    19 October 2020

    Unblocktober

    Sussex Wildlife Trust are supporting Unblocktober – a national campaign and awareness month during October to improve the health of our drains, sewers, watercourses and seas.

     
  • Bluefin Tuna

    07 October 2020

    Bluefin Tuna

    Officers at the Sussex IFCA were surprised to find an Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus) which had washed up on the shores of Chichester Harbour.

     
  • Help Our Kelp - Year One Anniversary

    05 October 2020

    Help Our Kelp - Year One Anniversary

    One year ago, the Help Our Kelp Partnership was formed with the aim of regenerating the much depleted West Sussex kelp forests.

     
  • Rockpooling

    02 August 2020

    Rockpooling

    Charlotte Owen talks us through the joys of rockpooling

     
  • Help Our Kelp update

    30 July 2020

    Help Our Kelp update

    Please write to your local Sussex MP to ask for The Sussex Near Shore Trawling Byelaw to be implemented to Help Our Kelp

     
  • Six tonnes of fishing gear collected and recycled

    29 July 2020

    Six tonnes of fishing gear collected and recycled

    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.