We should be dropping lots of boulders, or other things that would make the areas unsuitable for that type of fishing.
Keen scuba diver, can confirm, a vast majority of the seabed has been fucked and is still being fucked by these tests
Trawlers disrupting the ocean floor release carbon dioxide trapped by the sea bed. In fact bottom trawling alone releases as much carbon dioxide as the entire aviation industry.
Not to mention the huge amount of plastic that they dump into the ocean.
I love fish and seafood but no longer eat it more than once or twice a year.
It’s worse than meat for our planet imo.
I live in Asia. It’s even worse here, it’s one of the main things that makes me think we’re totally fucked as a species.
Yeah I’m not surprised, this is the industry that almost unanimously voted to fuck itself via Brexit, not sure they would care about protected areas.
Never mind, there’s plenty more fish in the sea.
Tragedy of the commons.
It will be the collective end of us all.
I liked when greenpeace dropped massive boulders all over the floor of various fishing grounds.
Don’t generally agree with their tactics, but that one was a stroke of genius.
With a bit more planning, I am sure they could create some perfectly shaped concrete boulders to drop that snag nets with greater efficiency.
As someone who doesn’t like seafood I wish more people didn’t like seafood then we could just stop fucking the ocean.
What if we all stopped eating fish aha
Why aren’t these arseholes being jailed? Get the coastguard out there, arrest the pricks, and carve their boat up for scrap. They’d soon stop then.
I’m thinking something on the sea bed to snag and ruin these sort of nets would be a good reminder too.
“The Farmers of The Sea”
I have fished the shore in kent occasionally for the last 7 years. Only caught 20 fish. Mainly mackerel. Nothing else. My dad used to catch plaice, bass, cid, flatties etc. i catch fuck all. Just as bad as my experience on pof.
I’m not a hippie dippy guy by any jeans but my god the fishing industry is absolutely awful and needs massive overhaul
There’s been a few documentaries on trawler fishing etc, doesn’t seem to be enough action taken against it.
They’re devastating for marine life and the environment, but it’s a money spinner apparently. 🫤
““What is happening is that the government is tackling this issue, dealing with it as quickly as possible, and the key thing is we’ve got our fish back,” Mr Rees-Mogg said.
“They’re now British fish and they’re better and happier fish for it.”
The speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle intervened and said: “Obviously there’s no overwhelming evidence for that.”
​
Someone should inform both Sir Lindsay and Mogg The Odious that we now have overwhelming proof that British fish are in fact neither “better” or “happy”.
I remember reading that without EU oversight the British fishing industry would use the smallest nets possible and scoop up everything.
Getting rid of red tape indeed.
People are so stupid only thinking about the present.
In the future they would’ve killed off all the fish and then they won’t have a job or any money at all.
Commercial fishing is a strange thing. A farmer on land looks after his crop and prepares the land. A commercial fisherman cares nothing for the ocean – they do no feeding or tending of their herds. They just go out and plunder like there’s an eternal supply every day. If there were no quotas they would rush out and take everything they could now with no consideration for tomorrow.
You bastards this is so shortsighted, leave the fucking fish alone
Watch Seaspiracy
I see fishermen are still bent on destroying the UK, first with Brexit at a political and social level, and now at environmental level.
Where you’d have various sized rocky outcrops from the sands, all but the largest were demolished, their debris in what were previously individual gulley microcosms teeming with life; and even normally ubiquitous kelp was stripped.
Instead, like OP’s image. Acres and miles of it. Very sad to see.
Gosh. It is almost like Corporations and Industry are not held responsible and liable for anything. I guess there’s no way of anyone ever finding out who is doing this, arresting them, fining them, and jailing them.
Too bad its not some women who held a party for her friends during lockdowns … like that would have been a crime work solving.
(I sincerely hope the :/ came thru on this post)
“But analysis of fishing vessel tracking data from Global Fishing Watch (GFW) and Oceana, a conservation NGO, found that fishing with bottom-towed gear took place last year on 58 out of 64 offshore “benthic” MPAs, which aim to protect species that live on the seabed”
Vessel tracking data does not show that a vessel is fishing. For example, the Wester Ross MPA fully encompasses the port of Ullapool, so every vessel fishing legally around the French Line to the North West of Scotland that lands in Ullapool will have tracking data recorded as being in the MPA. When they transit through it, to land.
There is no doubt that illegal fishing does occur within MPA’s, however, for every vessel illegally fishing, there is likely many more transiting areas perfectly legally.
NGO’s always have an agenda and like to ask for figures through Freedom of Information which they then interpret to mean what they want it to…
Doesn’t sound very protected if it allows a technique called bulldozing
But at least the fish are British.
Farage promised we could just go to French waters and do it there! 😡
Buy a boulder, (excellent present for those who have everything) brilliant way to protect our environment.
All along the South Devon coast where I live , the sea is trawled where it is banned, the fishing community fail to self control.
Go and stand at Start Point lighthouse any night and anyone can watch many trawlers dragging the bays.
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We should be dropping lots of boulders, or other things that would make the areas unsuitable for that type of fishing.
Keen scuba diver, can confirm, a vast majority of the seabed has been fucked and is still being fucked by these tests
Trawlers disrupting the ocean floor release carbon dioxide trapped by the sea bed. In fact bottom trawling alone releases as much carbon dioxide as the entire aviation industry.
Not to mention the huge amount of plastic that they dump into the ocean.
I love fish and seafood but no longer eat it more than once or twice a year.
It’s worse than meat for our planet imo.
I live in Asia. It’s even worse here, it’s one of the main things that makes me think we’re totally fucked as a species.
Yeah I’m not surprised, this is the industry that almost unanimously voted to fuck itself via Brexit, not sure they would care about protected areas.
Never mind, there’s plenty more fish in the sea.
Tragedy of the commons.
It will be the collective end of us all.
I liked when greenpeace dropped massive boulders all over the floor of various fishing grounds.
Don’t generally agree with their tactics, but that one was a stroke of genius.
With a bit more planning, I am sure they could create some perfectly shaped concrete boulders to drop that snag nets with greater efficiency.
As someone who doesn’t like seafood I wish more people didn’t like seafood then we could just stop fucking the ocean.
What if we all stopped eating fish aha
Why aren’t these arseholes being jailed? Get the coastguard out there, arrest the pricks, and carve their boat up for scrap. They’d soon stop then.
I’m thinking something on the sea bed to snag and ruin these sort of nets would be a good reminder too.
“The Farmers of The Sea”
I have fished the shore in kent occasionally for the last 7 years. Only caught 20 fish. Mainly mackerel. Nothing else. My dad used to catch plaice, bass, cid, flatties etc. i catch fuck all. Just as bad as my experience on pof.
I’m not a hippie dippy guy by any jeans but my god the fishing industry is absolutely awful and needs massive overhaul
There’s been a few documentaries on trawler fishing etc, doesn’t seem to be enough action taken against it.
They’re devastating for marine life and the environment, but it’s a money spinner apparently. 🫤
““What is happening is that the government is tackling this issue, dealing with it as quickly as possible, and the key thing is we’ve got our fish back,” Mr Rees-Mogg said.
“They’re now British fish and they’re better and happier fish for it.”
The speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle intervened and said: “Obviously there’s no overwhelming evidence for that.”
​
Someone should inform both Sir Lindsay and Mogg The Odious that we now have overwhelming proof that British fish are in fact neither “better” or “happy”.
I remember reading that without EU oversight the British fishing industry would use the smallest nets possible and scoop up everything.
Getting rid of red tape indeed.
People are so stupid only thinking about the present.
In the future they would’ve killed off all the fish and then they won’t have a job or any money at all.
Commercial fishing is a strange thing. A farmer on land looks after his crop and prepares the land. A commercial fisherman cares nothing for the ocean – they do no feeding or tending of their herds. They just go out and plunder like there’s an eternal supply every day. If there were no quotas they would rush out and take everything they could now with no consideration for tomorrow.
You bastards this is so shortsighted, leave the fucking fish alone
Watch Seaspiracy
I see fishermen are still bent on destroying the UK, first with Brexit at a political and social level, and now at environmental level.
I saw it during a SCUBA trip to the [Summer Isles ](https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@58.0106497,-5.4271895,14.42z) some years ago, “bulldozed” certainly describes the aftermath.
Where you’d have various sized rocky outcrops from the sands, all but the largest were demolished, their debris in what were previously individual gulley microcosms teeming with life; and even normally ubiquitous kelp was stripped.
Instead, like OP’s image. Acres and miles of it. Very sad to see.
Gosh. It is almost like Corporations and Industry are not held responsible and liable for anything. I guess there’s no way of anyone ever finding out who is doing this, arresting them, fining them, and jailing them.
Too bad its not some women who held a party for her friends during lockdowns … like that would have been a crime work solving.
(I sincerely hope the :/ came thru on this post)
“But analysis of fishing vessel tracking data from Global Fishing Watch (GFW) and Oceana, a conservation NGO, found that fishing with bottom-towed gear took place last year on 58 out of 64 offshore “benthic” MPAs, which aim to protect species that live on the seabed”
Vessel tracking data does not show that a vessel is fishing. For example, the Wester Ross MPA fully encompasses the port of Ullapool, so every vessel fishing legally around the French Line to the North West of Scotland that lands in Ullapool will have tracking data recorded as being in the MPA. When they transit through it, to land.
There is no doubt that illegal fishing does occur within MPA’s, however, for every vessel illegally fishing, there is likely many more transiting areas perfectly legally.
NGO’s always have an agenda and like to ask for figures through Freedom of Information which they then interpret to mean what they want it to…
Doesn’t sound very protected if it allows a technique called bulldozing
But at least the fish are British.
Farage promised we could just go to French waters and do it there! 😡
Buy a boulder, (excellent present for those who have everything) brilliant way to protect our environment.
All along the South Devon coast where I live , the sea is trawled where it is banned, the fishing community fail to self control.
Go and stand at Start Point lighthouse any night and anyone can watch many trawlers dragging the bays.
https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/live-greenpeace-boulders-brighton-fishing/
https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/greenpeace-back-with-more-boulders-as-government-leaves-97-of-protected-areas-open-to-destructive-bottom-trawling/?source=GA&subsource=GOFRNAOAGA034J&gclid=Cj0KCQjw-daUBhCIARIsALbkjSbtTo2AGBdLgI7bnGB2wfdO1Ie_GVfKnRanBS3WM97HiO6dkxz9C2oaAkYpEALw_wcB
You can prevent this by shocking the bed so the fish swim up and you don’t have to trawl the bed. But that’s illegal.
If it’s illegal and there’s evidence, why can’t they be sued/stopped?
Well, I guess they’re not protected, are they… If they were, they wouldn’t be bulldozed.