If you don't laugh, you'll cry 🥲 #DivedNotDredged
March 11, 2026 at 4:43 PM
If you don't laugh, you'll cry 🥲 #DivedNotDredged
We've launched our #DivedNotDredged campaign to celebrate the best of #Scottishseafood and encourage food influencers like #Michelin and #AAawards to champion sustainability!
Please take action here >>
www.openseas.org.uk/dived-not-dr...
Please take action here >>
www.openseas.org.uk/dived-not-dr...
Dived Not Dredged
www.openseas.org.uk
February 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We've launched our #DivedNotDredged campaign to celebrate the best of #Scottishseafood and encourage food influencers like #Michelin and #AAawards to champion sustainability!
Please take action here >>
www.openseas.org.uk/dived-not-dr...
Please take action here >>
www.openseas.org.uk/dived-not-dr...
Scottish hand-dived scallops prove seafood can be both sustainable and premium quality 🌊
Supporting #Fish24 means choosing low-impact fishing that protects marine habitats, supports coastal communities and keeps our seas thriving.
#DivedNotDredged
Supporting #Fish24 means choosing low-impact fishing that protects marine habitats, supports coastal communities and keeps our seas thriving.
#DivedNotDredged
May 14, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Scottish hand-dived scallops prove seafood can be both sustainable and premium quality 🌊
Supporting #Fish24 means choosing low-impact fishing that protects marine habitats, supports coastal communities and keeps our seas thriving.
#DivedNotDredged
Supporting #Fish24 means choosing low-impact fishing that protects marine habitats, supports coastal communities and keeps our seas thriving.
#DivedNotDredged
📢 #Highlands & #Skye join us on 12 March from 5.30pm for the #DIVEDNOTDREDGED Movie & Seafood Experience.
Featuring The Orkney Dive, a short film on scallop diving in Orkney & beyond, alongside discussion, drinks, light bites & the Coastal Testimonies exhibition
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/divednotdr...
Featuring The Orkney Dive, a short film on scallop diving in Orkney & beyond, alongside discussion, drinks, light bites & the Coastal Testimonies exhibition
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/divednotdr...
March 3, 2026 at 4:21 PM
📢 #Highlands & #Skye join us on 12 March from 5.30pm for the #DIVEDNOTDREDGED Movie & Seafood Experience.
Featuring The Orkney Dive, a short film on scallop diving in Orkney & beyond, alongside discussion, drinks, light bites & the Coastal Testimonies exhibition
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/divednotdr...
Featuring The Orkney Dive, a short film on scallop diving in Orkney & beyond, alongside discussion, drinks, light bites & the Coastal Testimonies exhibition
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/divednotdr...
The loss of the Michelin Green Star risks pushing sustainability further out of the spotlight just when our seas need it most. 🌊
How seafood is caught matters.
Hand-dived scallops protect marine habitats, unlike dredging which damages the seabed.
#DivedNotDredged
How seafood is caught matters.
Hand-dived scallops protect marine habitats, unlike dredging which damages the seabed.
#DivedNotDredged
May 22, 2026 at 11:37 AM
The loss of the Michelin Green Star risks pushing sustainability further out of the spotlight just when our seas need it most. 🌊
How seafood is caught matters.
Hand-dived scallops protect marine habitats, unlike dredging which damages the seabed.
#DivedNotDredged
How seafood is caught matters.
Hand-dived scallops protect marine habitats, unlike dredging which damages the seabed.
#DivedNotDredged
Yesterday at The Gannet in Glasgow we held our #DivedNotDredged lunch with chefs Peter McKenna and Calum Montgomery, celebrating Scotland’s hand-dived scallops and the need to back low-impact fishing methods.
November 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Yesterday at The Gannet in Glasgow we held our #DivedNotDredged lunch with chefs Peter McKenna and Calum Montgomery, celebrating Scotland’s hand-dived scallops and the need to back low-impact fishing methods.
Ahead of our #DivedNotDredged event this evening, our Sustainable Seafood Officer, Andrea Ladas, spoke to BBC Orkney about the opportunity to ask MSPs to protect the valuable sustainable fisheries around Scotland.
🎙️ Tune into the episode to hear more: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
🎙️ Tune into the episode to hear more: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Around Orkney - 08/10/2025 - BBC Sounds
News, features and weather for Orkney, including the daily community diary.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Ahead of our #DivedNotDredged event this evening, our Sustainable Seafood Officer, Andrea Ladas, spoke to BBC Orkney about the opportunity to ask MSPs to protect the valuable sustainable fisheries around Scotland.
🎙️ Tune into the episode to hear more: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
🎙️ Tune into the episode to hear more: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Small pub, big principles 🦞
We visited the Colintraive Hotel to talk seafood with head chef Joe, who uses creel-caught langoustines from Loch Fyne, hand-dived Orkney scallops, all local and seasonal. Simple food done right.
Video 🎥👇
#SustainableSeafood #Scotland #DivedNotDredged
We visited the Colintraive Hotel to talk seafood with head chef Joe, who uses creel-caught langoustines from Loch Fyne, hand-dived Orkney scallops, all local and seasonal. Simple food done right.
Video 🎥👇
#SustainableSeafood #Scotland #DivedNotDredged
July 17, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Small pub, big principles 🦞
We visited the Colintraive Hotel to talk seafood with head chef Joe, who uses creel-caught langoustines from Loch Fyne, hand-dived Orkney scallops, all local and seasonal. Simple food done right.
Video 🎥👇
#SustainableSeafood #Scotland #DivedNotDredged
We visited the Colintraive Hotel to talk seafood with head chef Joe, who uses creel-caught langoustines from Loch Fyne, hand-dived Orkney scallops, all local and seasonal. Simple food done right.
Video 🎥👇
#SustainableSeafood #Scotland #DivedNotDredged
It’s All About #DivedNotDredged Seafood at The Duke Organic
It’s All About #DivedNotDredged Seafood at The Duke Organic
The Duke Organic in Islington is partnering with Open Seas and Patagonia to raise awareness of the #DivedNotDredged campaign. The initiative from Open Seas is shining a light on Scotland's scallop dive sector and highlighting its sustainable approach to fishing, which provides high-quality, low-impact seafood to restaurants. Scallop divers, chefs, policy-makers and sustainability experts from...
londontheinside.com
May 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
It’s All About #DivedNotDredged Seafood at The Duke Organic
Congratulations to Caroline Bennett, an @exeterfood.bsky.social associate, named in The Independent’s Climate 100 List 2025. Founder of Sole of Discretion, she champions small-scale sustainable fisheries and the #DivedNotDredged campaign for hand-dived scallops. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
The Independent Climate 100 List 2025 in full
Now in its second year, The Independent is proud to publish its list of the world’s leading environmentalists – marking the campaigners, change makers and innovators who are working to stop the damage...
www.independent.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Congratulations to Caroline Bennett, an @exeterfood.bsky.social associate, named in The Independent’s Climate 100 List 2025. Founder of Sole of Discretion, she champions small-scale sustainable fisheries and the #DivedNotDredged campaign for hand-dived scallops. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
📽️ We’re still touring The Orkney Dive for our #DivedNotDredged campaign – recently in #Arran with the Community of Arran Seabed Trust to talk sustainable seafood & marine protection. Big thanks to MARA Fish Bar & Deli and everyone who joined the conversation.
Arran, we’ll be back! 🐟🌊
Arran, we’ll be back! 🐟🌊
March 12, 2026 at 11:13 AM
📽️ We’re still touring The Orkney Dive for our #DivedNotDredged campaign – recently in #Arran with the Community of Arran Seabed Trust to talk sustainable seafood & marine protection. Big thanks to MARA Fish Bar & Deli and everyone who joined the conversation.
Arran, we’ll be back! 🐟🌊
Arran, we’ll be back! 🐟🌊
📢 #Highlands & #Skye join us on 12 March from 5.30pm for the #DIVEDNOTDREDGED Movie & Seafood Experience.
Featuring The Orkney Dive, a short film on scallop diving in Orkney & beyond, alongside discussion, drinks, light bites & the Coastal Testimonies exhibition
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/divednotdr...
Featuring The Orkney Dive, a short film on scallop diving in Orkney & beyond, alongside discussion, drinks, light bites & the Coastal Testimonies exhibition
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/divednotdr...
March 10, 2026 at 8:33 AM
📢 #Highlands & #Skye join us on 12 March from 5.30pm for the #DIVEDNOTDREDGED Movie & Seafood Experience.
Featuring The Orkney Dive, a short film on scallop diving in Orkney & beyond, alongside discussion, drinks, light bites & the Coastal Testimonies exhibition
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/divednotdr...
Featuring The Orkney Dive, a short film on scallop diving in Orkney & beyond, alongside discussion, drinks, light bites & the Coastal Testimonies exhibition
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/divednotdr...
Still thinking about those hand-dived scallops from our #DivedNotDredged lunch at The Gannet last weekend 🍽️😋
A huge thank you again to chefs Peter McKenna and Calum Montgomery for an incredible menu that showed just how good sustainable seafood can be and why how we catch our seafood matters.
A huge thank you again to chefs Peter McKenna and Calum Montgomery for an incredible menu that showed just how good sustainable seafood can be and why how we catch our seafood matters.
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Still thinking about those hand-dived scallops from our #DivedNotDredged lunch at The Gannet last weekend 🍽️😋
A huge thank you again to chefs Peter McKenna and Calum Montgomery for an incredible menu that showed just how good sustainable seafood can be and why how we catch our seafood matters.
A huge thank you again to chefs Peter McKenna and Calum Montgomery for an incredible menu that showed just how good sustainable seafood can be and why how we catch our seafood matters.
Today we’re at The Gannet in Glasgow with Edinbane Lodge for our #DivedNotDredged lunch, celebrating Scotland’s hand-dived scallops.
The collaborative menu by Peter McKenna & Calum Montgomery will showcase the best of Scotland’s low-impact seafood, bringing together chefs, divers & seafood lovers ⬇️
The collaborative menu by Peter McKenna & Calum Montgomery will showcase the best of Scotland’s low-impact seafood, bringing together chefs, divers & seafood lovers ⬇️
November 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Today we’re at The Gannet in Glasgow with Edinbane Lodge for our #DivedNotDredged lunch, celebrating Scotland’s hand-dived scallops.
The collaborative menu by Peter McKenna & Calum Montgomery will showcase the best of Scotland’s low-impact seafood, bringing together chefs, divers & seafood lovers ⬇️
The collaborative menu by Peter McKenna & Calum Montgomery will showcase the best of Scotland’s low-impact seafood, bringing together chefs, divers & seafood lovers ⬇️
A five-course menu will be served with dishes celebrating hand-dived scallops, followed by discussions on how menus, food storytelling, & consumer choices can help drive more sustainable practices across Scotland’s seafood sector.
Learn more about the event ➡️ www.openseas.org.uk/thegannetlun...
Learn more about the event ➡️ www.openseas.org.uk/thegannetlun...
#DivedNotDredged lunch @ The Gannet, Glasgow
Chefs Peter McKenna & Callum Montgomery supporting low impact seafoodThe Gannet, Glasgow| Sunday 16th November 2025 | 12:30 - 16:30 | 5 courses seafood lunch + chefs Q&A | £100 BOOK
www.openseas.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
A five-course menu will be served with dishes celebrating hand-dived scallops, followed by discussions on how menus, food storytelling, & consumer choices can help drive more sustainable practices across Scotland’s seafood sector.
Learn more about the event ➡️ www.openseas.org.uk/thegannetlun...
Learn more about the event ➡️ www.openseas.org.uk/thegannetlun...
Just a snapshot from our #DivedNotDredged event at the
@parliament.scot last week.
Gina Brown of The Murray Arms Hotel, a family seafood business in Orkney, spoke about the reality of the situation for scallop divers whose livelihoods depend on healthy seas and fair management 🧵🏴🤿
@parliament.scot last week.
Gina Brown of The Murray Arms Hotel, a family seafood business in Orkney, spoke about the reality of the situation for scallop divers whose livelihoods depend on healthy seas and fair management 🧵🏴🤿
October 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Just a snapshot from our #DivedNotDredged event at the
@parliament.scot last week.
Gina Brown of The Murray Arms Hotel, a family seafood business in Orkney, spoke about the reality of the situation for scallop divers whose livelihoods depend on healthy seas and fair management 🧵🏴🤿
@parliament.scot last week.
Gina Brown of The Murray Arms Hotel, a family seafood business in Orkney, spoke about the reality of the situation for scallop divers whose livelihoods depend on healthy seas and fair management 🧵🏴🤿
Still buzzing from last week's #DivedNotDredged event at the @parliament.scot
We brought together food organisations and businesses, fishers, conservationists, and MSPs to discuss how we can protect Scotland’s inshore waters and support sustainable fishing, like scallop diving.
We brought together food organisations and businesses, fishers, conservationists, and MSPs to discuss how we can protect Scotland’s inshore waters and support sustainable fishing, like scallop diving.
October 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Still buzzing from last week's #DivedNotDredged event at the @parliament.scot
We brought together food organisations and businesses, fishers, conservationists, and MSPs to discuss how we can protect Scotland’s inshore waters and support sustainable fishing, like scallop diving.
We brought together food organisations and businesses, fishers, conservationists, and MSPs to discuss how we can protect Scotland’s inshore waters and support sustainable fishing, like scallop diving.
Learn more here: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
And check out our #DivedNotDredged campaign, calling for sustainable, low-impact fishing in Scotland’s inshore waters: openseas.org.uk/dived-not-dr...
And check out our #DivedNotDredged campaign, calling for sustainable, low-impact fishing in Scotland’s inshore waters: openseas.org.uk/dived-not-dr...
Study tracks UK’s journey from seafood self-sufficiency to dependence on imports
More than a century of data reveals how the UK has gone from supplying domestic seafood needs from productive home waters to importing seafood from almost 90 countries. University of Exeter researcher...
news.exeter.ac.uk
September 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Learn more here: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
And check out our #DivedNotDredged campaign, calling for sustainable, low-impact fishing in Scotland’s inshore waters: openseas.org.uk/dived-not-dr...
And check out our #DivedNotDredged campaign, calling for sustainable, low-impact fishing in Scotland’s inshore waters: openseas.org.uk/dived-not-dr...
"This Saturday on Papay Westray 🎬 🐚
Join us for a FREE screening of 'The Orkney Dive' in support of our #DivedNotDredged campaign — with fresh hand-dived scallops on the menu.
Spend a night celebrating low-impact fishing & high-quality seafood. Find out more about our work at openseas.org.uk
Join us for a FREE screening of 'The Orkney Dive' in support of our #DivedNotDredged campaign — with fresh hand-dived scallops on the menu.
Spend a night celebrating low-impact fishing & high-quality seafood. Find out more about our work at openseas.org.uk
September 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"This Saturday on Papay Westray 🎬 🐚
Join us for a FREE screening of 'The Orkney Dive' in support of our #DivedNotDredged campaign — with fresh hand-dived scallops on the menu.
Spend a night celebrating low-impact fishing & high-quality seafood. Find out more about our work at openseas.org.uk
Join us for a FREE screening of 'The Orkney Dive' in support of our #DivedNotDredged campaign — with fresh hand-dived scallops on the menu.
Spend a night celebrating low-impact fishing & high-quality seafood. Find out more about our work at openseas.org.uk
Our message is out there on the big screen:
🤿 Support low-impact fishermen by choosing dive caught scallops, not dredged.
Though scallops might all look the same on your plate, how they’re caught makes a huge difference to the seabed.
#divednotdredged
🤿 Support low-impact fishermen by choosing dive caught scallops, not dredged.
Though scallops might all look the same on your plate, how they’re caught makes a huge difference to the seabed.
#divednotdredged
September 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Our message is out there on the big screen:
🤿 Support low-impact fishermen by choosing dive caught scallops, not dredged.
Though scallops might all look the same on your plate, how they’re caught makes a huge difference to the seabed.
#divednotdredged
🤿 Support low-impact fishermen by choosing dive caught scallops, not dredged.
Though scallops might all look the same on your plate, how they’re caught makes a huge difference to the seabed.
#divednotdredged
Catch methods matter! #DivedNotDredged
August 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Catch methods matter! #DivedNotDredged
Hearing divers’ stories never gets old.
When we spoke with scallop diver and Director of Keltic Seafare, Alasdair Hughson, for our The Orkney Dive film, he had plenty to share about how rich life on Scotland’s seabed can be.
Take a look 👇
#DivedNotDredged
When we spoke with scallop diver and Director of Keltic Seafare, Alasdair Hughson, for our The Orkney Dive film, he had plenty to share about how rich life on Scotland’s seabed can be.
Take a look 👇
#DivedNotDredged
August 7, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Hearing divers’ stories never gets old.
When we spoke with scallop diver and Director of Keltic Seafare, Alasdair Hughson, for our The Orkney Dive film, he had plenty to share about how rich life on Scotland’s seabed can be.
Take a look 👇
#DivedNotDredged
When we spoke with scallop diver and Director of Keltic Seafare, Alasdair Hughson, for our The Orkney Dive film, he had plenty to share about how rich life on Scotland’s seabed can be.
Take a look 👇
#DivedNotDredged
✍️ Scotland can do the same — sign the Our Seas petition to call for stronger protections for inshore waters: ourseasscotland.eaction.org.uk/bring-back-t...
#DivedNotDredged
#DivedNotDredged
Petition to Bring Back Scotland's Inshore Limit
Scotland's coastal seabed was off-limits to bottom-trawling until 1984. Ever since the limit was removed, the fish in our seas declined as seabed habitats were destroyed. Protecting our seabed will he...
https://ourseasscotland.eaction.org.uk/bring-back-the-fish?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAadEXP79[…]qDOn4hFbReXyIktweiz2w3ISvQ_aem_Vy49nP_9koB90xMFdZZ-Bg
August 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
✍️ Scotland can do the same — sign the Our Seas petition to call for stronger protections for inshore waters: ourseasscotland.eaction.org.uk/bring-back-t...
#DivedNotDredged
#DivedNotDredged
“With the recent increase in dredging in Orkney over the last two years, we would love to see protections put in place to safeguard the seabed.”
Scallop diver Nick Nourse speaking at our recent #DivedNotDredged event featured in The Orcadian.
Learn more: www.openseas.org.uk/dived-not-dr...
Scallop diver Nick Nourse speaking at our recent #DivedNotDredged event featured in The Orcadian.
Learn more: www.openseas.org.uk/dived-not-dr...
July 7, 2025 at 10:41 AM
“With the recent increase in dredging in Orkney over the last two years, we would love to see protections put in place to safeguard the seabed.”
Scallop diver Nick Nourse speaking at our recent #DivedNotDredged event featured in The Orcadian.
Learn more: www.openseas.org.uk/dived-not-dr...
Scallop diver Nick Nourse speaking at our recent #DivedNotDredged event featured in The Orcadian.
Learn more: www.openseas.org.uk/dived-not-dr...
Seafood shouldn’t cost the earth.
Support low-impact methods like scallop diving over dredging.
Tell food influencers to choose sustainability
👉 www.openseas.org.uk/dived-not-dr...
#DivedNotDredged
Support low-impact methods like scallop diving over dredging.
Tell food influencers to choose sustainability
👉 www.openseas.org.uk/dived-not-dr...
#DivedNotDredged
April 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Seafood shouldn’t cost the earth.
Support low-impact methods like scallop diving over dredging.
Tell food influencers to choose sustainability
👉 www.openseas.org.uk/dived-not-dr...
#DivedNotDredged
Support low-impact methods like scallop diving over dredging.
Tell food influencers to choose sustainability
👉 www.openseas.org.uk/dived-not-dr...
#DivedNotDredged