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 🌊🐟

Show threadStoneface VimesMar 18, 2025
@anna_lillith any idea where these ships are working from?
Show threadanna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Mar 18, 2025

@capnthommo that's a good question. In the greenpeace report 5 main supertrawlers are mentioned:

"The five supertrawlers that investigators identified as having spent the most time fishing in UK offshore MPAs between 2020 and 2025 were Willem van der Zwan (flagged to Netherlands), Margiris (Lithuania), Helen Mary (Germany), Sch 81 Carolien (Netherlands) and Afrika (Netherlands).[2] The Margiris (143m) and Willem van der Zwan (142.5m) are two of the biggest supertrawlers on Earth."

Show threadStoneface VimesApr 12, 2025
@anna_lillith I wonder what the actual ownership is though. Who is making the decisions and where the catch is going. And why the hell this is still going on. Shameful.
Show threadSvenssons Nyheter
@capnthommo @anna_lillith Three family-owned dutch companies own them. Parlevliet & van der Plas (PP Group), Cornelis Vrolijk/Jaczon and Willem van der Zwan. PP Group is one of the biggest fishing companies in the world. None of the mentioned trawlers use bottom trawls. So htey cause no damages to the seabottom. They use pelagic trawls. They have factories on board and that's the reason the are so big. The size says nothing of how much they fish. A 50 meter boat without a factory can fish more.
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