Fishing

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A map showing part of the North Sea, with Dogger Bank highlighted. An overlay shows the movements of a fishing vessel, and highlights where it switched off its AIS tracking system.

Fishing

AIS dark bottom trawling in the Dogger Bank

This report documents Greenpeace's investigation of destructive fishing practices within an area which is supposed to be legally protected. Greenpeace investigators also discovered widespread illegal fishing activity in the protected…

September 24, 2020

Two activists hang from the side of a large fishing ship. A small Greenpeace boat drives alongside.

Fishing

As it happened: Greenpeace blocks destructive fishing in the North Sea

Activists have prevented a 117m long supertrawler from fishing within a Marine Protected Area off the coast of Scotland. Greenpeace has also created a 'boulder barrier' to stop harmful bottom-trawling…

by Anthony Lewis, Mal Chadwick, Helle Abelvik-Lawson September 22, 2020

Fishing

Bright blue seas: the need to properly protect our offshore Marine Protected Areas

New Greenpeace analysis has found that only five of the UK’s 73 offshore protected areas ‘may be’ progressing towards conservation targets. Just two offshore protected areas have long-term site condition…

September 8, 2020

Margiris supertrawler fishing in the English Channel, off the coast of Brighton.

Fishing

Ban supertrawlers from UK Marine Protected Areas

An open letter to George Eustice, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

July 24, 2020

Aerial view of a giant fishing ship with a net trailing behind it

Fishing

Why is the government letting destructive ‘supertrawlers’ fish in Marine Protected Areas?

It's like driving a bulldozer through a nature reserve

by Anthony Lewis June 16, 2020

Environmental justice

Why Greenpeace supports local fishing

Millions of people across the world rely on fishing for their food and livelihood, but – like other food systems – it can work better for both people and the…

by Anthony Lewis, Philip Evans June 9, 2020

Fishing

Fishers’ and TV chefs’ plea to eat local fish to save Britain’s fishing communities

London, 9 May 2020 - Britain’s small scale more sustainable fishers have been plunged into crisis by the COVID19 pandemic.

by James Hanson May 9, 2020

Fishing

The government just bailed out small-scale fishers. Here’s what should happen next

The UK’s small-scale fishers have been struggling for decades due to climate change, industrial overfishing and unfair quota systems. Now, the coronavirus pandemic is pushing local fishers to the brink,…

by Anthony Lewis April 16, 2020

Climate change

What does Brexit mean for farming, fishing and climate change?

The UK is leaving the EU. But what does this mean for environmental laws and standards? How are fishing, farming and climate change going to be handled from now on?…

by Helle Abelvik-Lawson January 31, 2020

Climate change

Ministers give themselves ‘licence to fail’ as they dodge urgent nature targets

The UK government has given itself a ‘licence to fail’ by refusing to take any legal responsibility for new short-term targets on sustainable fisheries and nature restoration, campaigners…

by Alison Kirkman January 31, 2020