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Inert granite boulders are being placed into the English Channel as part of a new bottom trawler exclusion zone in the Offshore Brighton Marine Protected Area. The initiative will help prevent destructive bottom trawling which destroys the Offshore Brighton Marine Protected Area s protected seabed. Photo: Suzanne Plunkett/Greenpeace
The barrier has been created in the Offshore Brighton marine protected area in the English Channel, which the organisation said was one of the UK’s most heavily bottom trawled protected areas.
The boulders, dropped by activists aboard the Greenpeace ship Esperanza, will close 55 square nautical miles of Offshore Brighton – one fifth of its total area – to bottom trawling.
Scientists have completed the first phase of a research mission to determine the impact of the giant A-68a iceberg on one of the world's most important.
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Marine Management Organisation launches consultation on four of England’s Marine Protected Areas
Marine Management Organisation (MMO) launches formal consultation seeking views on proposals to manage activity in four of England’s offshore Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
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1 February 2021
The next phase in the Government’s ambitious plans for a ‘Blue Belt’ of marine protected areas around the UK’s seas has begun with the Marine Management Organisation’s (MMO) formal consultation to protect four of England’s 40 offshore Marine Protected Areas.
Now that the UK has left the EU, the UK Government has powers to implement evidenced based marine management that will help ensure our seas are managed sustainably, protecting both the long-term future of the fishing industry and our precious wildlife and habitats.