Aggregate dredging impacts in South East England: Improving ecological health by integrating fisher ecological knowledge with scientific research

- The article demonstrates a way to balance aggregate dredging impacts with conservation and small scale fisheries
- It develops a way to integrate fisher LEK into acceptable science to enhance decision making
- It explains how participatory decision making is possible with the inclusion of different stakeholders' observations of ecological risk to enhance marine health
- It critically reflects on the contradictions of the blue growth narrative and its tensions with conservation
- It shows how it is possible to develop a new system of marine democracy