How on earth is destructive bottom trawl fishing still allowed in most of our marine “protected” areas?

We're campaigning to end this devastating bulldozing of our ocean. Sign up to our newsletter to find out how you can help.

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'Over 400 million tonnes of untargeted marine life have been discarded by bottom trawlers in the last 65 years. Everything from ancient corals to seagrass meadows, rare sharks to starfish, are at risk.'
~ great article from Hugo Tagholm

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🚨🚨 Only 46 of 233 of the designated marine havens in Scotland are in favourable or recovering condition.

The govt’s own surveys & expert evidence show damage from trawlers such as scallop dredgers fishing inside marine protection areas Open Seas
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🚫🛢️ Act now for the ocean and say NO to offshore drilling! Email your MP to ask them to stand against new oil and gas in UK seas. We must protect our waters and safeguard our marine ecosystems. Your voice matters—make it heard!

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✊ It's time to get Big Oil polluters out of our seas. Join the Ocean Alliance Against Offshore Drilling to make your voice heard.

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Scotland used to have a limit on destructive bottom-trawling which safeguarded vital habitats & low-impact fishing within three miles of the shore.

It's time to #BringBacktheFish .

Sign the Our Seas petition: bit.ly/inshorelimit

Coming up this weekend! Great work from Surfers Against Sewage

Wax those boards. Paint those placards. Get your swim suits on.

Get ready to make waves and take a stand against pollution of our ocean ✊ 🌊 #Endsewagepollution

'This isn’t about some land grab on fishing rights or fishing sovereignty, this is a particular environmental protection that we believe is the right thing to do.' 👏👏👏

UK govt stands firm on sandeel ban to protect puffins & other ocean wildlife.

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Thousands of low-impact fishers across Europe are calling on Virginijus Sinkevičius to #MakeFishingFair .

They do the least harm to the environment and generate more jobs. By giving them the opportunities to fish & subsidies they need, we can protect the ocean

👉 makefishingfair.org

NEW: To re-establish the UK as a climate leader, the The Climate APPG calls for Rishi Sunak to:

⛔️End “maxing out” North Sea oil & gas

🤝Join the Beyond Oil & Gas Alliance

💰Set an ambitious climate finance goal

🐸Release an ambitious biodiversity plan

🌎Appoint a climate envoy

'It still blows my mind that this incredibly destructive form of fishing [bottom trawling] is allowed in marine protected areas.' 🤯 🤯

Our Head of Comms Dr Daisy Brickhill talks about comms as a key tool for ocean protection with Higginson Strategy. Full podcast👉 ow.ly/StSc50RGJV4

⚠️ #DYK UK Govt allows bottom trawlers to bulldoze our marine protected areas?

Did you know they let 33,000 hours of suspected bottom trawling wreck them last year alone?

It's time to save our seas.

'Thousands of dead sandeels on Jersey beach'

Likely caused by deoxygenating. What drives deoxygenation of our ocean? The climate crisis.

A reminder of the importance of a ban on industrial fishing for sandeels. Space for resiliance. Space to breathe.
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What on earth are people thinking to catch sand-eels to feed to pigs & ‘factory-farmed’ salmon? Stealing the food that puffins, whales, fish & marine life depends on. Environmental vandalism.

⁦Oceana UK⁩ ⁦Chris Packham⁩ ⁦Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Are you angry at the terrible state of UK nature?

Join us & 150+ nature & climate groups for a peaceful march in London on 22 June to deliver one clear message to politicians... 📢 #RESTORENATURENOW

Help create a positive future for nature🌊

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'50 politicians, including 3 Conservatives, wrote to the PM calling for the UK to regain its international leadership on the crisis by ending the licensing of new oil & gas.'

Apart from leadership, it could give us a fighting chance at a future.

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Sandeels are the mainstay of many marine communities, supporting wildlife from cod to kittiwakes.

Prioritising short-term profit over healthy populations will lead only to impoverished coastal communities & empty seas.
Justin Rowlatt
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From the ocean to the uplands, nature in the UK is in crisis.

Ask your MP - will you be at this crucial debate? Will you choose the right side of history & help #RestoreNatureNow ?

Government has a legal duty to stop wildlife decline by 2030. It's a great target, but the main political parties don't have a credible plan to meet it.

Join us in London on 22 June & ask politicians how they'd #RestoreNatureNow :
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