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    UK proposes wider ban on destructive bottom trawling

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    1. the_englishman on

      In what seems to be a never-ending stream of bad news for conservation, some genuinely good news. As ever though it will rely on enforcement though and that’s generally been not a very strong suit of ours.

    2. warriorscot on

      This is long overdue, bottom trawling is cutting your nose off to spite your face. If you don’t have any habitat for fish you don’t have a many fish. We’ve now got a couple of decades of great evidence from the wind farms that have trawling bans that it causes enormous improvement in the environment, and better quality and higher quantity fish stocks. 

    4. ShowerEmbarrassed512 on

      I’ve been a keen scuba diver along the sussex coastline for approx 10 years now, and when I first started there was very little in the way of larger sea life, let alone decent size shoals. 

      Now we’re seeing large shoals on wrecks and reefs, pods of dolphins regularly and even the odd octopus spotted. The marked change has been a nearshore trawling ban introduced in 2021 and has led quite a remarkable bounce back. The main aim was to encourage the kelp forests to grow back, but the knock on effects are noticeable where I dive which is usually wrecks. 

      Edit: for people who want to read more about the larger scale coastal rewilding project. 

    5. Lower_Performer_3365 on

      This might be the first bit of unabated good news from Labour since nationalising steel

    6. BuzzAllWin on

      Instead of proposing it just fucking get on a do it while there is still a few fish left

    7. sjw_7 on

      Well worth watching the David Attenborough documentary Ocean that came out recently. It shows the destruction that these trawlers cause and how quickly it bounces back when they stop.

    8. MultiMidden on

      I thought that fishermen were the backbone and saviours of the country or at least that’s what the anti-EU mob says?

      This has to be done, the reason quotas were introduced was to try and protect fish stocks. Otherwise they would overfish the seas until tipping point was reached and fish stocks could never recover or would need a total fishing ban for decades. I think it actually happened in Canada, they overfished so much tipping point was reached.

    9. Available-Task7520 on

      i thought they meant Twitch streamers for a minute. I need to go touch grass.