Analysis shows alarming prevalence of harmful fishing methods thought to ‘destroy whole ecosystems’
A trawler lowers its nets. ‘Industrial fishing is designed to kill marine life as efficiently as possible,’ says Oceana UK.A trawler lowers its nets. ‘Industrial fishing is designed to kill marine life as efficiently as possible,’ says Oceana UK.Ten of these vessels, primarily from the EU, were responsible for a quarter of this activity in offshore protected areas, according to Oceana UK, a conservation group.
The other is South West Deeps , 150 miles off Land’s End, which has cuckoo rays, supports seals and whales, and is among the top five offshore marine protected areas for carbon-storage capacity, according to the Marine Conservation Society., the equivalent to 1m return flights from London to Sydney. Bottom trawling can release the harmful carbon back into the atmosphere.
“How can we call them ‘protected’ if we have such highly extractive industries in them? The government must act now toOceana analysed satellite-tracking data from Global Fishing Watch, a nonprofit open-access platform, and found that more than 100,000 hours of apparent industrial fishing took place in MPAs off the coast of Britain in 2023.
The UK government, which committed to restricting bottom trawling in MPAs by 2024 after a 2021 legal challenge by Oceana, has been introducing bylaws to protect certain features within sanctuaries, such as reefs, on a site-by-site basis.
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