The Firth of Forth is a designated SPA and internationally important for resident and migratory birds some of which are at risk of decline. However Edinburgh’s 27 of coast is 70% hard sea defences and the intertidal areas left are shrinking due to climate change. Western Harbour Ponds is a very special place next to […]
We at Edinburgh Shoreline were keen to meet a representative of the Dale family in East Lothian who run a number of businesses in East Lothian and are farmers, fishers, founder members of the Lobster Hatchery at North Berwick and they own the seagrass site at Tyninghame where Restoration Forth have been working over the […]
Jane lives on the sea front in North Berwick with stunning views over the sea, east to the Bass Rock and West to the Edinburgh skyline. We looked out from her balcony as the sun set behind the Pentland hills at the recently revealed concrete line of the sewer usually covered by xxx feet of […]
Archie started fishing in 1952. His great grandfather, grandfather and father were all fishermen as well as his son and grandson. So, fishing for the Johnstons is very much a family generational thing. His grandfather, who he lived with, fished for oysters. He remembers they were mostly sold to the French and Spaniards. The […]
Bill Simpson is the latest character in a series of interviews undertaken to get an insight into the lives of people who work on or even in the Firth of Forth. People who spend their lives on boats, diving, fishing or undertaking contract work, many of whom have incredible long term knowledge of the local […]
Leonie and Caitlin Godfrey met up with Mark Blyth to talk about his diving experience in the Firth of Forth and discuss potential oyster basket trail site areas. When I met Joe Terburgh – the razor clam diver – he mentioned his friend Mark Blyth who runs the Dive Bunker https://www.divebunker.co.uk/ at Burntisland in Fife […]
