John Lynch
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86 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 6 Jun
John Lynch’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, the Iblana was built in 1988.
It was a French-built stern trawler, 22 metres.
We bought in 2004, so we have the boat 22 years now.
This is the wheelhouse, yeah.
The centre of command, I suppose, for the skipper, yeah.
When the boat's at sea, there's someone up here 24 hours a day.
Different things, electronic charts, radars, fish finders.
Yeah, well, I suppose from the fishing industry point of view, there's a fear of it because it's more spatial squeeze.
And up to now, we haven't been accustomed to spatial squeeze.
The first taste of spatial squeeze we're going to have is in offshore renewable energy.
The scale of offshore renewables will be large.
We're looking at 20 gigawatts by 2040.
And 37 gigawatts by 2050.
So if we get to that stage, that's a lot of offshore renewable energy taking up approximately 12,000 square miles.
And the current technology available for that renewable energy is fixed bottom.
And it won't be outside of, I think, 60, 70 meters at the moment.
So that means it's all in the zone where fishing takes place.
But if you add on to that then, the 30% marine protected areas and 10%, which is 33% of the 30%, if you understand what I'm saying, it has to be strictly protected.
So no fishing activity whatsoever.
No fishing activity in those strictly protected areas.
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