Greenpeace

Greenpeace completes its boulder barrier to prevent destructive bottom trawling

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A barrier of boulders in the North Sea designed to prevent destructive bottom trawling has been completed by environmental charity Greenpeace.  Greenpeace has placed boulders across the seabed of the 47 square mile Dogger Bank protection area to create a ‘bottom trawler exclusion zone’.   The final two boulders in the ‘barrier’ were worked into ‘full … Read more

Greenpeace calls for ban on ‘supertrawlers’ in UK-owned areas

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Supertrawlers should be banned from fishing in UK owned Protected Marine Areas, according to Greenpeace, who say the giant ‘factory ships’ are ‘destructive’.  The controversial fishing vessels can be more than 328 feet long and ‘vacuum’ up huge quantities of fish every day as they move through the water. A Greenpeace study found that 25 … Read more