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Greenpeace International @greenpeace@mastodon.social

· 4d ago

PRESS RELEASE: Activists aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise have placed giant boulders to block bottom trawling across 116 km² of the Southern North Sea Marine Protected Area. The UK government must ban destructive fishing in ALL protected waters. #ProtectTheOceans #trawling #overfishing #oceans #marinelife

Greenpeace creates new ‘boulder barrier’ in the UK’s most bottom-trawled offshore Marine Protected Area - Greenpeace International

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Greenpeace creates new ‘boulder barrier’ in the UK’s most bottom-trawled offshore Marine Protected Area - Greenpeace International

Activists on board the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise have successfully placed giant boulders onto the seabed in the Southern North Sea – the UK’s most bottom-trawled offshore Marine Protected Area (MPA) – forming an underwater barrier to prevent the destructive fishing method.

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Dragofix @Dragofix@veganism.social

· 1mo ago

Trawling threatens vital carbon stores in Scotland's sea lochs https://phys.org/news/2026-09-trawling-threatens-vital-carbon-scotland.html #Scotland #sea #environment #marinelife #trawling #carbon

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Trawling threatens vital carbon stores in Scotland's sea lochs

New research from the University of St Andrews shows that disturbing seabed sediments through trawling could cause significant losses of carbon stored in Scotland's sea lochs. The study, published in Marine Environmental Research, shows that organic carbon stored in seabed sediments can be released into the surrounding seawater when disturbed. This carbon is then more likely to be broken down and ultimately returned to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, contributing to climate change.

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0tracas🐾 @0tracas@veganism.social

· 6mo ago

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@Dragofix@veganism.social Une étude révèle que le chalutage de fond capture 3 000 espèces de poissons marins, y compris des espèces menacées https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/04/study-finds-bottom-trawling-nets-3000-marine-fish-species-including-threatened-ones/ #environnement #marin #vie marine #poissons #espèces #trawling de fond #BanBottomTrawling

Study finds bottom trawling nets 3,000 marine fish species, including threatened ones

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Study finds bottom trawling nets 3,000 marine fish species, including threatened ones

How many marine fish species do bottom trawls catch? Researchers now have a list, and it’s long, running to some 3,000 species, according to a recent study. Bottom trawling is a commercially popular, and controversial, fishing method in which boats drag weighted nets along the seafloor. Usually they target commercially valuable marine life at the […]

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