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Fish stocks thrive after dredging ban in Scotland’s Summer Isles

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Positive Fish stocks are recovering in Scotland’s Summer Isles after scallop dredging was banned in 2016 following a community-led campaign. The ban protects maerl beds, and local people report a greater variety of fish in the area.

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We changed “thriving” to “recovering” in the summary and replaced the headline commentary with sourced specifics: the 2016 scallop-dredging ban followed a community campaign, protects maerl beds, and local people report greater fish variety.

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Fish stocks thrive after dredging ban in Scotland’s Summer Isles

Fish stocks are thriving in Scotland’s Summer Isles after a ban on industrial scallop dredging, according to the report. Its headline links the change to locals protecting pink maerl beds. Another headline describes the seabed as thriving a decade after the Scottish dredging ban; it does not establish when the ban began.

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