New Blueprint Coalition Chair appointed: S&TA's own Janina Gray

Ever since she joined the S&TA in the autumn of 2007 as our (first ever) Research and Policy Manager, Janina Gray – known to one and all as Nina and now our Head of Science HH– has shown a total and passionate commitment to the S&TA’s aims which has helped lift the Association to a whole new level on the national stage.  Representing fisheries and aquatic environment interests on committees and working groups that have included government departments and major environmental charities, Nina has, on our behalf, employed her scientific knowledge to ensure that fisheries have a real voice in the decision-making processes that impact so directly on key outcomes.

In recognition of her outstanding work, her peers and fellow members of the Blueprint for Water Coalition have voted her Chair for 2014 – the first time ever a fisheries organisation has been accorded this accolade.   It is a great honour for the S&TA – for Nina, it is richly deserved.   Many congratulations!

S&TA in the media

We’ve had considerable exposure in the media this last month, ranging from television to print and online, from the chalkstreams in the south to the aquaculture problems in Scotland.

These included Times, Press & Journal, an interview with Guy Linley-Adams on BBC Radio Scotland and considerable local and online coverage on the sealice story (issued 21 November)

Brian Clarke, in his monthly Times feature, highlighted S&TA’s work in an analysis of dredging (5 November)

An in-depth profile  of the chalksteam problems by Mike McCarthy in the Independent on 31st October and BBC TV Countryfile, Sunday 1st December,  highlighted the problems with salmon farming, interviewing S&TA(S) Director of Communications Andrew Graham-Stewart.  

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Source: Salmon & Trout Association