Inside the fight to stop destructive fishing in marine protected areas
Marine protected areas in the English channel are still at risk from fishing activities, finds Adam Vaughan as he visits one on board a Greenpeace vessel
By Adam Vaughan
Greenpeace campaigners aboard their ship, the Sea Beaver, are crowded astir a surface showing a trawler sitting connected the borderline of the Bassurelle Sandbank, a marine protected country successful the Channel betwixt England and France. The vessel is licensed for an particularly destructive benignant of sportfishing that has grown rapidly successful the past year.
The vas is the latest successful the sights of the campaigners. They person spent the past fewer months disconnected the English southbound seashore to papers and deter examples of concern sportfishing successful England’s 178 marine protected areas (MPAs), which are meant to relieve unit connected marine …
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