Re: More Support to Ban Supertrawlers
Originally Posted by
Donkeyman
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Good post Bread ! I particularly liked the bit about applying the
new enviromental laws to the british trawlermen as well as other
countries fishermen!?
Like you l also believe that supertrawlers and corperate owned
fishing companies should be heavily restricted if not completely
banned from our waters ?
The emphasis should be on small local boats to help our coastal
communities re-develop?
Donkeyman! 👍👍👍
But it will not be the british government that goes that way!
All is not completely lost, however. Although stymied over proposals for the protection zones, conservationists and biologists have recently taken an alternative approach to try to protect Britain's seas. This makes use of 107 marine*Special Areas of Conservation*that were set up in 1992 under the EU Habitats Directive but which were being ignored by Britain. "UK government regulators weren't doing anything about them and were allowing trawling and scallop dredging to take place," says Jean-Luc Solandt of the*Marine Conservation Society. Legal challenges by a number of NGOs have now forced the government to tighten up the running of these special areas.
As a result, several have now banned bottom trawling including one major marine area in Cornwall – which introduced its ban in November. Others include marine sites near the Isles of Scilly, Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Isle of White, Thanet in Kent, and Northumberland. "The list is not vast but we expect to be adding to it," added Solandt. "It is a start, if nothing else." This point is backed by Roberts. "There is little to be cheerful about when it comes to our marine environment, which makes recent successes with those areas protected by EU law – although limited in extent – all the more pleasing."
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...empty-the-seas