Also in the news / Creel rope workshop, RNLI donation and more…
A WORKSHOP is taking place this evening (Tuesday) in Lerwick on negatively buoyant rope in creel fishing.
All commercial creel fishermen are welcome to attend the event, which runs from 6pm to 9pm in Islesburgh’s Room 11 – although people can drop in from 4pm.
The event is being hosted by the Scottish Entanglement Alliance, which is holding workshops around the Scottish coast where folk can find out more about trials of negatively buoyant rope, and offer their insight too.
This is rope that would sink instead of float, and the hope is it could reduce the risk of entanglement with sea animals.
The Scottish Entanglement Alliance has previously held a trial of negatively buoyant rope in the Western Isles.
RNLI Lerwick has received a late Christmas present – a cheque worth £3,500 – from Living Lerwick after its Santa’s grotto fundraiser in December.
The former RSM UK offices were transformed into a grotto, with around 400 bairns getting the chance to meet Santa.
Funds raised from the grotto have now been handed over to the Lerwick Lifeboat.
Living Lerwick project manager Emma Miller said: “We were thrilled to be able to have the grotto in the old RSM building again and we know how much visiting the real Santa means to the bairns.
“The support from the Lerwick Lifeboat fundraising crew is incredible, and we’re so grateful for their help in raising this money for our local lifeboat – which, of course, delivers Santa to the parade every year!
“We also want to thank RSM for providing the venue and Harry’s for their assistance in supplying the wonderful gifts that brought smiles to 400 children.”
LOCAL MP Alistair Carmichael has called for the creation of a “marine energy taskforce”.
During a Westminster debate, Carmichael highlighted the potential for a £37 billion gross value added to Scotland’s economy by 2050 from marine energy, a majority of which would be from exports.
He also reiterated calls for an increase in ring-fenced funding for tidal stream and wave energy projects, as well as empowering GB Energy to invest in marine energy projects.
In responding to the debate, parliamentary under-secretary of state for energy security and net zero Michael Shanks said he was “open-minded” about the creation of a taskforce and undertook to discuss the matter further, while stating that “marine renewables are exactly the kind of technology that Great British Energy might invest in at an early stage”.
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