Greenpeace activists launch a RIB from a new Greenpeace ship called Sea Beaver which is patrolling Britain's marine protected areas (MPAs) off the south coast of England, in July 2021
SUPPOSEDLY protected marine areas off Britain’s coast are being pillaged by industrial fishing companies because the government is failing to protect them, green campaigners said today.
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are designated tracts of sea and seabed where marine life should have chance to recover from overexploitation by fishing fleets.
But environment group Greenpeace says 92 per cent of the UK’s MPAs continue to be exploited by “the most destructive types of fishing” — including bottom trawling — because of the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs’ failure to enforce regulations.
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