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A decision allowing new pontoons to be installed for more than 100 weekly boat moorings in a bay home to several species of wildlife has been met with “shock and dismay”. Kent Wildlife Trust bosses have aired concerns after the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) gave the green light for structures to be installed at Pegwell Bay between Sandwich and Ramsgate. It is feared the project would scare off grey seals which live at the bay after it was confirmed the number of boats to the area could skyrocket from two to three a week, to 15 per day. Proposed by Carl Davis at Coastal Marina, it is hop…