Show threadanna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Mar 18, 2025

#Supertrawlers spent 7,380 hours fishing in #UK #MarineProtectedAreas each year since #Brexit

by Alexandra Sedgwick | March 11, 2025

An investigation by #GreenpeaceUK reveals today that giant supertrawlers relentlessly continue to catch fish in the UK’s Marine Protected Areas, damaging precious #MarineHabitats and #FishPopulations, despite the UK government having had the powers to stop them since Brexit and committing to protect at least 30% of #UKWaters by 2030.

https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/supertrawlers-spent-7380-hours-fishing-in-uk-marine-protected-areas-each-year-since-brexit/

Supertrawlers spent 7,380 hours fishing in UK Marine Protected Areas each year since Brexit - Greenpeace UK

An investigation by Greenpeace UK reveals today that giant supertrawlers relentlessly continue to catch fish in the UK’s Marine Protected Areas, damaging precious marine habitats and fish populations, despite the UK government having had the powers to stop them since Brexit and committing to protect at least 30% of UK waters by 2030.  Investigators found […]

Greenpeace UK
RenéMar 16, 2025
Monster fishing vessels are hoovering up whole ecosystems in #UK waters that are supposed to be protected. I just signed a petition calling on the new government to save our seas from destructive fishing, by #banning #supertrawlers in UK Marine Protected Areas. Will you join me? https://act.gp/47MTYKR
Sign the petition

Steve Reed: stop the industrial fishing frenzy

Show threadanna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Mar 15, 2025

All the #SuperTrawlers were operating legally despite the #UKgovernment having the power to ban them from fishing in its waters since leaving the #EU.

🔴 Most of the vessels are foreign-owned.

🔴 Most of their catch isn’t even sold in the UK.

🔴 The government promised to protect 30% of UK waters by 2030, yet #MPAs remain unprotected.

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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Mar 15, 2025

 A new #GreenpeaceUK investigation exposed a brutal reality: since #Brexit, giant #SuperTrawlers have spent 37,000 hours fishing inside the #UK ’s Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). That’s the equivalent of 4 years and 3 months killing every single hour a day. Destroying #habitats and wiping out #fish populations, all while the UK government does nothing to stop them.

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#SaveOurSeas #SoSSaturdays 🌊🐟

Glyn MoodyMar 11, 2025
Brexit betrayal laid bare as #supertrawlers hammer UK waters for 7,380 hours a year
- https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2025001/supertrawlers-brexit-marine-protected-areas (sorry, Express) why is this allowed? #overfishing
Jules 🍺Mar 11, 2025
Sign the petition
Monster fishing vessels are hoovering up whole ecosystems in UK waters that are supposed to be protected. I just signed a petition calling on the new government to save our seas from destructive fishing, by banning supertrawlers in UK Marine Protected Areas. Will you join me?
https://act.gp/47MTYKR
#petition #uk #marineparks #fishing #marineprotectedareas #supertrawlers
Sign the petition

Steve Reed: stop the industrial fishing frenzy

Glyn MoodySep 2, 2024
Labour needs to fix British #fishing – will it stand by its principles now it is in power? - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/sep/02/labour-needs-to-fix-british-fishing-will-it-stand-by-its-principles-now-it-is-in-power damn right; outrageous that #supertrawlers can rip the environment to pieces for a quick profit
Labour needs to fix British fishing – will it stand by its principles now it is in power?

The new government must use its landslide majority to mend the damage to jobs and fish populations caused by neglect

The Guardian
Mojo ♻️Jan 27, 2024

#SeaShepherd Global has released footage and images of large industrial #krill #supertrawlers, once again #trawling in large pods of #whales off the #Antarctic Peninsula.
100 per cent of #Australian pharmacies surveyed carried krill oil products from the Antarctic and that Biomar, a #fish feed producer in Wesley Vale, #Tasmania, used up to 1200 tons of krill meal per year. This is the equivalent of 1 billion individual krill. #fishfarming #sustainability

https://www.echo.net.au/2024/01/krill-supertrawlers-found-trawling-through-whale-pods-in-antarctic/

Krill supertrawlers found trawling through whale pods in Antarctic

Today Sea Shepherd Global has released footage and images of large industrial krill supertrawlers, once again trawling in large pods of whales off the Antarctic Peninsula.

The Echo
Show threadzombywoofJan 8, 2024
@GOGREENECOWARRIORSS #Stop #superTrawlers
#stopFactoryFishing
#SaveTheWhales