Marine reserves
A growing body of scientific evidence demonstrates what we at Greenpeace have been saying for a long time: that the establishment of large-scale networks of marine reserves, urgently needed to protect marine species and their habitats, could be key to reversing global fisheries decline.
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Campaign updates
Bottom trawling - strip-mining the seas
Greenpeace calls for global marine reserves on World Oceans DayAs the kick-off to the football world cup approaches, how's this for a key pre-match...
EU pushes cod towards extinction
We've slammed the European Union's new fishing quotas, which will push cod closer to extinction in British waters. Under pressure from Tony Blair's...
Marine reserves: Royal Commission report calls for action
A new report by the influential Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (RCEP) has backed our call for a network of large-scale marine reserves -...
Defending the North Sea
The North Sea is in crisis after years of human activity - it is now among the most degraded seas in the world. Overfishing has caused fish stocks to collapse...
