Diving in Lyme Bay

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Diving in Lyme Bay

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Dear Diver
You may be aware that on the 11 July last year, the UK government closed sixty square miles of Lyme Bay to boats using scallop dredges and heavy demersal trawls in order to provide protection against damage to marine ecosystems incurred as a result of towed benthic gear. The area, however, remains open to sea anglers, scuba divers, fishers using pots and nets and other recreational users.
Here at Plymouth Marine Science Partnership we will be monitoring changes to how recreation groups use Lyme Bay. So, if you have dived in Lyme Bay in the last year (includes sites from Start Point, Teignmouth, Torbay, Portland, Dartmouth, Exeter etc.) please could you spare some time to fill out this questionnaire.

Link http://web.pml.ac.uk/lymebay/
Many thanks
Sian

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Many thanks to all who have filled out the questionnaire so far. There is one week remaining to take part and have your views taken into account.

The weblink is http://web.pml.ac.uk/lymebay/

Cheers
Sian Rees
University of Plymouth

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Dear diver

Many thanks if you have already taken part in the questionnaire. We really appreciate the time you have taken to take part in this research and your contribution is so valuable to our ongoing work in Lyme Bay. We will be following up the survey at the end or 2009 and 2010 with a much shortened set of questions.

If you are yet to fill in the questionnaire I would just like to let you know that we will be closing the site on Monday so we can start working with the information provided. So please ‘take the plunge’ and take part in our research http://web.pml.ac.uk/lymebay. We would really like to get a detailed representation of diving in Lyme Bay.

Many thanks

Sian Rees