UK’s largest sandbank given protection from bottom trawling

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.

Activists have been calling on the government for years 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.

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(SOURCE) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/14/uk-largest-sandbank-dogger-bank-protection-bottom-trawling

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