Wednesday, 1 June 2022

Scraping the Bottom

Yet another meningless 'pledge'? The UK government made a post-Brexit undertaking to crack down on bottom-trawling in 'our' marine protected areas (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/31/fishing-industry-still-bulldozing-seabed-in-90-of-uk-marine-protected-areas). The marine protected areas were supposed to give undisturbed stocks of marine organisms a chance to thrive. One hope was that they could 'reseed' adjacent, heavily-fished areas. It's reported, however, that 90% of the UK's marine protected areas are still being 'bulldozed' by bottom-trawling, the most invasive fishing technique. Pledges never appear to amount to much?
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