John Craven investigates MCZs
Dr Emma Sheehan talks to John Craven
Last Sunday’s episode of Countryfile, available now on BBC iPlayer, ran a ten-minute feature on the proposals in the Marine Bill for Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs). The segment starts at 21 minutes in to the programme.
John talks to Nicola Saunders, head warden of the Lundy No Take Zone, Melissa Moore of the Marine Conservation Society, Dr Emma Sheehan of the University of Plymouth and scallop fisherman Paul Wayson.
The scale of the problem that MCZs have to tackle was illustrated in Emma Sheehan’s answer to the question “So how long do you reckon it will take before the seabed makes a complete recovery?”
She said: “We don’t know what a complete recovery is because I don’t think we’ve got anywhere close to the UK that isn’t impacted by man so I’ve no idea of what a complete recovery even looks like.”