Helford Voluntary Marine Conservation Area
Newsletters

The Helford Voluntary Marine Conservation Area publishes two newsletters each year.

We have selected articles from some of our most recent issues to be published with colour photographs here on our website, you can also download each issue in full from this page, or join us and receive your copy by post.

Discovering the wonders of Looe’s marine heritage

Newsletter No.36 Spring 2008

• Visitors to Constantine
• Spider crabs – the wildebeest of our waters
• Green Tourism beside the Helford River
• HMCG Summarised Annual Report April 2007 – March 2008
• People
• 20 years on!
• Discovering the wonders of Looe’s marine heritage
• Helford diary - Rock Crevice Fauna
• Helford MCG Members’ Section
• Swans in Carne Creek - 2008 update
• Good news from Neil Garrick-Maidment
• The Lizard Peninsula Heritage Trust
• Photographic Competition 2008
• Life on the Ocean Wave: going nowhere in particular

Click here to download a free copy of issue No.36 Spring 2008 (8,464Kb) in PDF format.

Newsletter No.35 Autumn 2007

• Celebrating 20 years of the Helford Voluntary Marine Conservation Area
• Cornish lobsters – new tagging study
• Fal & Helford Special Area of Conservation Environment Agency Review
  of Consents
• Helford MCG Members’ Section Chairman’s report
• Maritime and marine emergency planning
• Cornwall Sea Fisheries Committee - Shellfish Stock Survey 2003-2006 by Samantha Davis
• The Fowey Estuary Voluntary Marine Conservation Area
• Facing up to change on the coast
• Large Helford Sea-hares - Aplysia depilans
• Time to watch out - string jelly’s about

Click here to download a free copy of issue No.35 Autumn 2007 (562Kb) in PDF format.

Newsletter No.34 Spring 2007

• Helford's herons and enigmatic egret
• Helford around the world
• Natural England Update
• Annual report April 2006 - March 2007
• Heavenly Helford
• BBC team get their feet wet to film Helford's fantastic rockpools
• Fal River Links 2006 summary at a glance
• Helford shellfish notes
• People page

Click here to download a free copy of issue No.34 Spring 2007 (3,481Kb) in PDF format.

Newsletter No.33 Autumn 2006

• "Community, Commerce and Conservation working together"
• Trigging and the Common cockle
• Helford's past seen through its place-names
• Bahamas vs The Manacles
• The National Trust and The National Coastwatch Institution working together around the Lizard
• Records of more rare, beautiful and interesting species of the HVMCA
• Chairman's Report
• Explore the shore at Helford Passage
• Helford River Drawing Competition 2006
• Helford Marine Conservation Group

Click here to download a free copy of issue No.33 Autumn 2006 (453Kb) in PDF format.

Newsletter No.32 Spring 2006

• Helford VMCA Poetry Competition 2005
• Hidden habitats of the HVMCA -Eelgrass (Zostera marina) beds
• The Helford River - An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
• Helford Marine Conservation Society - Chairman's Report, Spring 2006
• Annual Report October 2005 - March 2006
• The intertidal flies of the Helford River
• Otters and waterways -the health status of otters (Lutra lutra)

Click here to download a free copy of issue No.32 Spring 2006 (627Kb) in PDF format.

Newsletter No.31 Autumn 2005

• Helford Native Oysters
• Alwyne Wheeler and the Flying Fishes
• New geological sites (RIGS)
• Annual Report October 2004 to September 2005
• A Botanical walk in May
• A cormorant and pipefish prey
• Farm Pollution advice in the Helford Catchment

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Newsletter No.30 Spring 2005

• Cornish dolphins, past, present and future
• Royal apparel, ladies' gloves and the Fan Mussel
• Fal and Helford Oysters
• Counting Cornwall's Crustaceans: the first 12 months
• Update on oil protection by Falmouth Oil Services Ltd
• University of Exeter study on the Helford Catchment
• Joana Doyle

Click here to download a free copy of issue No.30 Spring 2005 (449Kb) in PDF format.

Newsletter No.29 Autumn 2004

• The Helford River - a Haven for Bats
• Seacore - a success story from Gweek
• Annual Report October 2003 - September 2004
• An episodic epitoke
• Helford Conservation Cruise 2004
• Taxi!!
• "Secrets of the Sea" for the Cornwall Audio Visual Archive
• St. George's Island Marine Reserve
• "By-the-wind Sailors" Attract attention

Click here to download a free copy of issue No.29 Autumn 2004 (560Kb) in PDF format.

Newsletter No.28 Spring 2004

• Seaweeds and animals of he the Helford River
• Look at the animals on the shore - events in 2004
• Seaweeds - of Helford and beyond
• Seasquirts from across the world invade Britain!!
• Here today, gone tomorrow - the Peacock worm Sabella pavonina
• Swans on Gillan Creek
• Diving into the blue, or should that be red?
• Happy 10th Birthday to you!
• Stella Turk's cetacean notes from May 2003 - January 2004
• Jan's cetacean report for 2004
• Dr Pamela Tompsett's award
• Tribute to Barry Candy

Click here to download a free copy of issue No.28 Spring 2004 (308Kb) in PDF format.

Newsletter No.27 Autumn 2003

• Annual report - October 2002 - 2003
• Helford Farm Project
• Counting Cornwall's Crustaceans
• Bumper Seabass hatch in 2002
• Cup Corals and Cuckoo Wrasse
• SEC Monitoring
• Increased Cetacean bycatch and rising temperate; a possible link
• Fish parasite responds to climate change!
• A tribute to Lance Peters

Click here to download a free copy of issue No.27 Autumn 2003 (283Kb) in PDF format.

Newsletter No.26 Spring 2003

• A new look at Helford's birds
• National recognition for Stella Turk
• Chairman Changes ....
• Dolphin disaster
• Calcified seaweed or maerl
• New bylaws have been passed to protect the humble cockle
• Bass protection measures - byelaw changes
• Making the 'Jaws of the Helford' video
• 'Sea-searching' for marine life
• Percuil oil pollution control boom develpoment
• A caribean cruise with a difference!

Click here to download a free copy of issue No.26 Spring 2003 (304Kb) in PDF format.

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