Marine Conservation Areas (MCAs) are quite rare around the UK. MCAs are needed to prevent over-fishing. They allow surrounding denuded areas to be repopulated with fish, crustaceans and molluscs. Bottom trawling is the most environmentally-damaging method of fishing. It effectively makes a waste land of the sea bed. It's consequently hardly rocket science to deduce that MCAs and bottom-trawling are wholly incompatible (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/12/the-guardian-view-on-fishing-and-nature-bottom-trawling-boats-dont-belong-in-conservation-zones). It does seem very strange to allow any incidences of this form of fishing into protected areas.
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