“Despite the harm [bottom trawling] is known to do, it is allowed in almost all the UK’s MPAs, designated as sanctuaries to protect rare, threatened or important ocean habitats”

More and more proof of the damage, harder and harder to justify the practice.
theguardian.com/environment/20…

There used to be an inshore limit on bottom trawling around Scotland to protect at least some of these important habitats. It was removed in 1984 and a lot of people want it back. I wrote about it and some of those people and habitats for Extra Teeth

x.com/extrateethmag/…