Marine Campaigns

Want to know how you can help protect and prolong the longevity of our wonderful marine environment? Join us or help with the following.

Fish Watch

Fish Watch Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th June 2009

Join the Dorset Wildlife Trust FISH WATCH survey at the Purbeck Marine Wildlife
Reserve, Kimmeridge. 100 divers / 1 weekend doing a 'snapshot' survey in the reserve.

Easy to ID species - Trigger fish, Rays, John Dory, Cuckoo wrasse, Seahorse and the rare Black-faced blenny. Marine wardens will be on hand to help with ID and other information.

Divers must organise their own dives - a boat dive through their club or a shore dive.
Dorset Wildlife Trust are not organising any dives. An underwater camera might be useful for recording sightings but is not essential.

All dive clubs visiting Kimmeridge that weekend are welcome to join in. To register in advance contact the Fine Foundation Marine Centre on 01929 481044 or email
with your name, club name and contact details.

To download a leaflet with more information about this event click on the following link > Fish Watch Leaflet

Fish for our Future

Support our small scale sustainable fishermen by purchasing locally sourced sea food and avoid beam trawled and high environmentally damaging methods. Find out more by requesting your own Pocket Good Fish Guide from the Marine Conservation Society or go to www.fishonline.org.

When buying pre-packed fish, check for source of origin and fishing method used. Some methods are extremely damaging to the environment and may accidently catch non-target species. This wasteful 'by-catch' is often thrown back unwanted; dead or dying .

Look out for the Marine Stewardship Council's tick of approval to ensure the fish has come from well managed stocks with minimal damage to the environment. Check out the MSC's website and find out where to buy sustainable sea food. If your supermarket does not stock sustainably sourced fish ask them why!

SeaClean Project

Recycle your monofilament fishing line to protect our marine wildlife. Find out more. Look out for the recycling bins in Swanage, Poole & Kimmeridge. > Find out more by clicking here.

MCS Beachwatch

Help us turn the tide on litter. Come along to our quarterly beach cleans at Kimmeridge and Worbarrow Bay. Dates of beachcleans are listed under our events. > Click here for details.

Find out more on a national scale from the Marine Conservation Society.

Blenny Friendly Crablines

Help save our precious blennies, gobies and cling fish from barbed hooks by changing to a net bag or purchasing one from the marine centre at Kimmeridge.

Alternatively, please send in your unwanted washing tablet net bags for us to reuse and recycle! > Click here to download our information leaflet

Mermaids Purses

Shark and skate egg cases commonly wash up upon the strandline, but which species do they belong to? Join us on our quest to record all egg cases found to help monitor the numbers and locations of different species through The Shark Trust.

Please let us know if you find any egg cases within the Purbeck Marine WIldlife Reserve. Check out the new Egg Case website!

cuckoo wrasse female