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Behind that forkful of squid, there’s an entire industry that capitalises on a lack of fishing regulations in international waters. This industry poses a huge threat to marine life and affects coastal communities worldwide, so find out why squid matter for the future of our oceans.
North Atlantic, 28 July 2022 - Activists on board the Arctic Sunrise have confiscated fishing gear from two European industrial longline fishing vessels in the North Atlantic [1]. One was operating in a Marine Protected Area.
A Greenpeace investigation has revealed that supertrawlers spent 2963 hours fishing in UK Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in 2019, the equivalent of 123 days.
An NGO-industry collaboration to protect the Antarctic Ocean today announces a big step forward with a year-round closure of a 4500km2 area of ocean around Hope Bay in the northern Antarctic Peninsula.
The Marine Management Organisation threatened Poole Harbour Commissioners with legal action if they allowed the boulders into port.
The MMO, the government agency in charge of protecting our seas, has intervened to stop Greenpeace UK placing more boulders in the South West Deeps (East) Marine Protected Area to shield it from destructive bottom trawling
Greenpeace research shows that over 90% of UK MPAs are protected in name alone, with no meaningful, site-wide regulation on the most destructive fishing activity.
A Greenpeace investigation has discovered a fleet of Russian flagged and owned supertrawlers fishing in a UK Special Area of Conservation (SAC) off the Scottish coast.
An open letter to Rebecca Pow MP and Victoria Prentis MP, Ministers for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
London, 14 July 2022 - A Greenpeace report, released today for Shark Awareness Day, reveals that EU fishing fleets from Spain and Portugal are consistently fishing in shark nursery grounds in the North Atlantic using longlines.
English fishermen, together with local fishing businesses, Greenpeace UK, Angling Trust and New Economics Foundation are calling on the UK government to take immediate and urgent action to protect coastal livelihoods and the health of our oceans.
Greenpeace report lifts lid on industrial fishing ahead of major UN ocean conference
The crew of Greenpeace’s ship Arctic Sunrise saved a humpback whale caught in fishing gear. The rescue is another reminder of why our oceans urgently need protection.
Destructive industrial fishing ships spent over 3,000 hours bottom trawling in this protected area in 2019. Until this broken system changes, it’s up to us to step in and stop the destruction.
Activists on the Greenpeace ship Esperanza have built a new underwater boulder barrier in the Offshore Brighton marine protected area in the English Channel, one of the UK’s most heavily bottom trawled protected areas.