Philip Marsden
The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination, also Rising Ground, The Levelling Sea etc.
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Revealed: 97% of UK offshore marine parks subject to destructive fishing
Karen McVeigh - the Guardian 107d 5 tweets
Vessels spent 200,000 hours in 2019 bottom trawling or dredging the seabed in protected areas set up to safeguard vital ecosystems
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Philip Marsden “MPAs are highly ineffective. They are fake, they are paper parks. There’s a massive problem here and the government needs to address it," says Prof Callum Roberts. 107d
Independent review backs introduction of Highly Protected Marine Areas
GOV.UK 230d 3 tweets
Review recommends introduction of Highly Protected Marine Areas as essential for marine protection and recovery.
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Philip Marsden Good news for the UK's inland waters. The key words here 'highly protected' - ie requiring active implementation and policing. But ecologically, MPAs work. 230d