Updated: February 1, 2021, 4:16 pm
Greenpeace dropped boulders into the Dogger Bank reserve to stop damaging fishing last year (Suzanne Plunkett/Greenpeace/PA)
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Damaging fishing practices could be banned in wildlife-rich Dogger Bank and three other protected areas of sea under plans being put out for consultation.
Under new byelaws, harmful bottom trawling would be prohibited in four of England’s offshore marine protected areas, and the use of static fishing gear such as pots or nets would be prevented in sensitive parts of two of them.