BigFishLittleFish | Ullapool Shark Ambassador

Heading to UHI Inverness

BigFishLittleFish — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 08:47:34 +0000

September !

Happy to report that I have been accepted to study for Environmental Sciences degree at UHI Inverness starting in September !

The Course

Something for the CV!

BigFishLittleFish — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:38:37 +0000

Over to Dad, Geoff Pringle!

“A nice positive affirming evening for Finlay at Scottish Southern Energy HQ in Perth for the Powering Futures award ceremony.

This new education initiative recognises attainment as opposed to achievement (passing exams).

Over 1700 high school kids took part in the programme coming together in small groups to create solutions to a net zero problem. Equivalent to a Higher award the course tested the group’s ability to work together, leadership, communication, organisational and presentation skills.

Skills which employers highly value but are not tested in the current education system.

Of those original 1700 kids who started the programme 1100 completed it.

Another valuable lesson for them to stick with things and see them through, which will help them in their future roles. Of these 1100, 76 kids were singled out for special recognition for their personal contribution to their groups project.

These 76 are the initial recipients of the Ken Muir award which it is hoped will build into an annual event recognising the importance of the positive behaviour and skills that kids possess aside from the ability to pass exams.

Very proud of Finlay for being one of the first recipients of the Ken Muir award.”

Last School Strike for Climate Action Week 337

BigFishLittleFish — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 08:29:34 +0000

My 337th and final School Strike for Climate Action!

Friday 13th June 2025; after six and a half years this is my last official Friday School Strike for Climate as I have now finished school and will hopefully be going to College to study Environmental Science in September.

It’s not been easy keeping motivated for such a long time but hopefully the youth movement have succeeded in raising and maintaining awareness about the Climate Crisis.

I will continue to campaign on this issue going forward with the hope that world leaders will eventually listen and take the necessary action.

Huge thanks to all the people who have supported me and stood with me on this journey I couldn’t of achieved any of this without you all.

Surfers Against Sewage National Day of Action

BigFishLittleFish — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:58:33 +0000

On May 17th, Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) led their most extensive national day of action to date.

Across 43 locations, thousands of ocean defenders took part in synchronised Paddle-Outs, all rallying around a single, urgent call: #EndSewagePollution.

SAS revealed that, in 2024, Scotland’s waters endured 23,498 recorded sewage discharges, lasting a combined total of 208,377 hours.

However, these monitored incidents represent just 6.7% of the national sewage infrastructure. The remaining 93.3% of overflows remain untracked by Scottish Water, according to SAS’s analysis.

The organisation believes the true extent of sewage pollution is significantly underreported, as the vast majority of the network remains unmonitored.

To raise awareness and demand accountability, SAS urged swimmers, surfers, and all who value clean water to take part in a UK-wide protest on Saturday.

Ella and I joined headed to Nairn Central Beach, one of the many protest sites, where participants gathered to express their growing frustration.

SAS continues to demand full disclosure and comprehensive monitoring, warning that without greater transparency, the true scale of Scotland’s sewage pollution crisis will remain hidden.

Shaping Our Shores interview with Shian Denovan

BigFishLittleFish — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:44:18 +0000

Last year , I did a wee interview with Shain Denovan from Scottish Coastal Clean Up for their Shaping Our Shores documentary whilst we were all busy cleaning beaches around the Wester Ross Marine Protect Area.

When Shain asked, “What can an everyday person do just to kind of help reduce the plastic in the oceans?”

Finlay’s reply was two fold!
“It sounds boring and simple, but stop using as much plastic it can be difficult in some circumstances but just reduce the amount you’re using. On top of that not everyone lives by the sea so not everyone can do a beach clean, but even just doing a litter pick would around your local area is so important because at the end of the day no matter where litter ends up it will go through the sewers or wherever and it will eventually end up in the sea. So just doing a litter pick in your local area will make a massive difference!”

The interview went live yesterday –

If you live in the North West Highlands of Scotland, or if you are vising the are would like to get involved, please do get in touch.

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Raffin Beach Clean

BigFishLittleFish — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 11:20:20 +0000

I took part in the latest group beach clean of Raffin in Assynt with the North West Highland Beach Cleans as part of the Keep Scotland Beautiful Spring Cleans campaign.

In three days, volunteers managed to remove 1118kg of rubbish from a 1km stretch of beach.

The largest single item, a massive piece of rubber, which I helped get off the beach. It weighed a colossal 105.80kg !
Dad said a cargo ship sank on the West Coast near Gairloch and it was full of big bales of this rubber. There is lots on the beaches around Gairloch and a big bale on Balchladich beach. We think the lump we moved was from that ship too. There is another large lump still on the beach at Raffin.

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Year End 2024

BigFishLittleFish — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 01:57:38 +0000

Rounding off 2024 here’s an Interesting article from The Ferret . I was at this meeting;- My thoughts are…

If new proposed system is 92% ‘better’ at reducing plastic then it should be used on every salmon farm in Scotland.

These multi million pound companies can afford extra cost to reduce the environmental impact on our seas & plastic pollution on our beaches.

Over 200 salmon farm sites in Scotland, potentially using 500 tonnes of plastic feed pipe. Which industry admit will produce 125 tonnes of micro-plastic over 2 year production cycle, resulting in the need to replace all 500 tonnes of the pipe, if it hasn’t already ended up on a beach waiting to be removed by unpaid volunteers.

So 250 tonnes of plastic used annually just on feed pipe and that’s before we get into the amount of plastic used by the salmon industry in the construction of their many sea cages which also end up on our beaches.

An industry that is paid to pollute with tax payers money !

So far in 2024 North West Highland Beach Cleans volunteers have removed over 1.6 tonnes of salmon farm feed pipe from North West Highland beaches.

The end of year collective total for the North West Highlands Beach Clean Group was momentous! A total of 482 beach cleans took place by 747 volunteers who removed a staggering 12.687 tonnes of rubbish!

29th January was my 316th consecutive Friday on School Strike for Climate Action.

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Six Years of School Strike for Climate Action!

BigFishLittleFish — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 10:23:15 +0000

Friday 13th December 2024. Climate strike week 314. 6 years ago I took part in my first school strike for climate action.

Sad to say that in between times our Governments have done little to tackle the climate crisis. But the youth of the world will not give up on this issue we will continue to shout, protest and strike until we have a healthy planet for us and all generations to come.

A Mention in The Northern Times

BigFishLittleFish — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 09:26:45 +0000

The collective efforts of the North West Highland Beach Clean volunteers was recognised in an article in The Northern Times on 10th December. Our thanks to every volunteer who has been involved in this monumental effort and to Caroline McMorran

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5 Years and 15 Tonnes Cleaned from Beaches by The Pringle Family

BigFishLittleFish — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 09:25:29 +0000

Over the past five years our family have removed 15 tonnes of rubbish for our beaches. Nice wee article in The Ross-shire Journal on 6th December.

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