20 Sep 2022
The Cornish Fish Producers’ Organisation (CFPO) has released a statement regarding Greenpeace UK’s boulder-dumping in the South West Deeps (East) Marine Conservation Zone. Greenpeace UK published a piece ‘5 reasons why Greenpeace built another underwater boulder barrier’ and the CFPO have responded in a statement “Whilst not wanting to overly engage in the headline-grabbing media campaign, the […]
13 Sep 2022
Further preparations have taken place to drop more boulders on marine conservation zone off Cornwall by Greenpeace UK. Meanwhile, it has been reported that England’s marine regulator has blocked further action. We covered last week the dropping of boulders by Greenpeace in the South West Deeps (East) Marine Conservation Zone off the coast of […]
06 Sep 2022
Greenpeace UK has placed 18 limestone boulders on the seabed in the South West Deeps (East) Marine Conservation Zone with the aim of disrupting industrial fishing. The environmental group dropped the boulders into the ocean about 200 miles (322km) off Cornwall from its ship Arctic Sunrise. It aims to create a barrier making […]
15 Mar 2021
Greenpeace: Greenpeace has built a new underwater ‘boulder barrier’ about 30 miles off the coast of Sussex. This barrier will stop destructive fishing in what’s supposed to be a protected part of the ocean. But we’re also here to expose the government’s failure to look after its so-called Marine Protected Areas all around the UK. Click here […]
02 Mar 2021
It is now widely understood that a large number of the UK’s marine protected areas are not protected from the damage of bottom trawling. They have been termed ‘paper parks’ or ‘unprotected areas’ in a recent report. Defra have made a number of positive moves in this regard since the first Greenpeace action on the […]
20 Oct 2020
Keith Hiscock comments. Attention to has been drawn to the issue of trawlers bringing up boulders from the seabed by the recent Greenpeace campaign on the Dogger Bank. Many trawlermen are not surprised – if nevertheless annoyed – to pick-up boulders in their nets. They may have fallen-out of a glacier or melting iceberg (‘glacial […]
29 Sep 2020
The Government response to Greenpeace’s action at Dogger Bank – Defra Posted by: Defra Press Office Defra – The Government’s response to the Greenpeace Action 23rd September 2020 ‘There is coverage in The Times, Daily Telegraph, The Herald and Channel 4 News (00:48) of the ongoing Greenpeace action at Dogger Bank Special Area of Conservation (SAC), where yesterday Greenpeace […]