Jean Luc Solandt  ‘MCS, Blue MF, WWF Netherlands and North Sea Foundation have all put our heads together and launched a significant report that was sent to Commission showing that illegal fishing in Dogger has to be stopped on a legal & ecological basis. We’ve done an Appropriate Assessment on this, and I was instrumental in putting together the 8 tests, and ensuring that we justified their inclusion with other authors and peer-reviewers that we show the real lack of science available to support a position of no likely significant effect to site integrity.

Anyhow, it’s been covered in some press such as politico and fishing daily: https://thefishingdaily.com/latest-news/marine-experts-call-for-end-to-illegal-fishing-on-dogger-bank/

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