supertrawler which spent at least 243 hours fishing in UK protected areas in 2020. They displayed a banner

In a desperate plea, Greenpeace has called on the UK to use Brexit as an opportunity to enforce greater protections for marine protected areas.... Although the UK has left the EU, super and bottomtrawlers are not banned from certain areas meaning they freely" tear off everything" in their path, Greenpeace warned.... ' Brexiteers send final warning to EU[ Latest] SNP called for referendum on EU treaty before Brexit[ Update] Clear off!...

Fishing groups from Eastbourne, Hastings, Thanet, Newhaven and Lowestoft, alongside the New Under Ten Fishermen’s Association( NUTFA), New Economics Foundation, Angling Trust, fishing businesses Sole of Discretion and Pesky Fish and Greenpeace have all signed a joint statement.... They are calling on Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party Government to" take urgent measures to protect fishing communities and our oceans".... Angela Merkel's stunning confession[ COMMENTS]' Can't blame Brexit f

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A new report by the wildlife conservation charity Fauna Flora International( FFI) has highlighted the controversial practice in its new report, Bottom Trawling: New perspectives on an old fishing practice.... Bottom trawling is presently estimated to account for more than quarter of the world's catch and holds the biggest share of all fishing practices....

supertrawlers over 100 metres in size-and bottom trawlers-are banned from Britain’s 10 designated

, said: “ Supertrawlers like the Willem van der Zwan spend thousands of hours each year fishing

Such is the devastation caused by the practice of so-called' fly-shooting', UK fishermen have warned it is now putting them out of business.... Speaking to Express.co.uk, Chris Thorne, Greenpeace's Ocean Manager claimed the practice is an existential threat to small-scale fishers in the UK.... Not only is it putting them out of business but these fleets can also fish up to 11 times the capacity of a smaller boat and are doing wide-scale damage to the seabed up to 12 nautical miles from the UK'

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The environmental pressure group challenged two of the ships as part of Operation Witness, an ongoing mission to challenge ships operating in specially designated Marine Protected Areas( MPAs) around the UK coast.... The French-flagged bottom trawlers, VF Atlas, which was operating in the Offshore Brighton MPA, and Glorieuse Immaculee, which was operating in the Offshore Overfalls and Bassurella Sandbank MPAs, were contacted by activists in Greenpeace’s ship, Sea Beaver, and agreed to stop. Bot