supertrawlers

Fury as foreign supertrawlers can still plunder British waters

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Foreign supertrawlers are still able to plunder the coasts off Britain despite Brexit because the government cannot work out how to ban them, a source says. The insider admitted ministers cannot ‘exclude these boats altogether’ and are only able to control what form of fishing they do. For example they can ban methods such as bottom … Read more

Greenpeace calls for ban on ‘supertrawlers’ in UK-owned areas

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Supertrawlers should be banned from fishing in UK owned Protected Marine Areas, according to Greenpeace, who say the giant ‘factory ships’ are ‘destructive’.  The controversial fishing vessels can be more than 328 feet long and ‘vacuum’ up huge quantities of fish every day as they move through the water. A Greenpeace study found that 25 … Read more