date:Jun 29, 2012
Mark Higgins, aged38, of Chelston, Torquay was ordered to pay 4015 after pleading guilty to dredging for shellfish and demersal trawling in the Designated Area contrary to the Lyme Bay Designated Area (fishing Restrictions) Order 2008.
Currently such fishing activity is prohibited in a designated 60 square-mile area of Lyme Bay, which is a candidate Special Area of Conservation (cSAC).
On 20 December Dorset Police Air Surveillance Unit was enlisted by the Marine Management Organisation to obse