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Leave the scallops at the bottom of the deep blue sea
PETER FROST is throwing stones – and big ones at that – onto the Dogger Bank to stop the ecocidal trawlers
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THE shallow seas around our coasts have a rich variety of wildlife, some of it valuable as food.
Perhaps the most valuable single catch is scallops. Unsurprisingly then, it is scallop-dredging that is thought to have the most severe ecological effect of all British marine fisheries because the damage and mortality it causes the seabed and species that live there.
Greenpeace’s ship the Esperanza is dumping huge granite boulders to build an underwater barrier to protect almost 50 square miles of the Dogger Bank Special Area of Conservation from seabed trawling after the government failed to commit to properly protect the area.
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