Police and Marine Scotland officers have stepped up patrols to tackle illegal cockling on the Solway Firth.
Mr Wood stressed, however, that the risk of a tragedy off the Solway Coast was a real one.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | Cockling deaths 'almost certain'
Maryport Inshore Rescue Service (MIRS) operates one high-speed boat independently of the RNLI in an around the Solway Firth.
Thousands of rounds have been fired into the Solway over years of testing.
As well as carrying out rescues in the Solway Firth, the charity also aided emergency services during the recent Cumbria floods.
All seven Scottish crew members died when the Solway Harvester, a scallop dredger, sank off the Ramsey coast in January 2000.
The Countryside Agency says the 84-mile Hadrian's Wall Path National Trail, from Wallsend to Bowness on Solway, is now proving a massive tourist hit.
The Solway Harvester sailed from Kirkcudbright in the early hours of 10 January and headed to the queen scallop grounds of the Irish Sea.
Campaign group Solway Plain Against Nuclear Dump (Spand) said it respected Unite's viewpoint but any decision to proceed was "not one to be taken lightly".
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale's Conservative MSP Alex Fergusson is urging the Scottish Executive to fast track the implementation of a regulation order for the Solway fisheries.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | Cockling deaths 'almost certain'
The group were thought to have been trapped by the incoming tide in the Solway Firth but a coastguard search failed to find any sign of them.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | Cockling deaths 'almost certain'
Two flood watches are currently in force in Scotland for the east coast from Peterhead to Berwick, and the Solway Firth from the Esk Estuary to Loch Ryan.
While England has the world's largest marine wind farm in Thanet, Scotland has, when I last looked, a modest Solway Firth array and a trial turbine in the Moray Firth.
An RAF Kinloss helicopter searched the area from Eden Bridge to Solway Estuary on Sunday and coastguard teams searched both sides of the river from the Eden Bridges to Grinsdale.
Starting at Kirkcudbright in the Solway Firth, he sailed round St Kilda, Shetland, and landed at Blyth on the north east coast of England before cycling 165 miles back to Kirkcudbright.
"It seems fitting that the Solway Centre is opened in the part of the world where the word 'environment' was created by Carlyle in 1826 and which has sustained creativity from the 'ploughman poet' Burns to modern land artists Jencks and Goldsworthy, " she said.
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