Dogger Bank saved from destructive practice along with three other areas, after campaigning by activists
The UK’s largest sandbank has been protected from bottom trawling, an environmentally destructive fishing technique.to stop bottom trawling at Dogger Bank, an important site off the east coast of England for species including sand eels, hermit crabs, flatfish and starfish.tripled in occurrenceThis is despite the area being labelled an MPA. Bottom trawling happens in many of these environmentally significant areas, leading campaigners and experts to refer to them as nothing but “paper parks”.
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