Il Regno Unito propone un divieto più ampio di pescare con il fondo distruttivo
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v507lx0e3o
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Il Regno Unito propone un divieto più ampio di pescare con il fondo distruttivo
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v507lx0e3o
di Alert-One-Two
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In what seems to be a never-ending stream of bad news for conservation, some genuinely good news. As ever though it will rely on enforcement though and that’s generally been not a very strong suit of ours.
This is long overdue, bottom trawling is cutting your nose off to spite your face. If you don’t have any habitat for fish you don’t have a many fish. We’ve now got a couple of decades of great evidence from the wind farms that have trawling bans that it causes enormous improvement in the environment, and better quality and higher quantity fish stocks.
This will be a boon for French bottom trawlers in our waters.
I’ve been a keen scuba diver along the sussex coastline for approx 10 years now, and when I first started there was very little in the way of larger sea life, let alone decent size shoals.
Now we’re seeing large shoals on wrecks and reefs, pods of dolphins regularly and even the odd octopus spotted. The marked change has been a nearshore trawling ban introduced in 2021 and has led quite a remarkable bounce back. The main aim was to encourage the kelp forests to grow back, but the knock on effects are noticeable where I dive which is usually wrecks.
Edit: for people who want to read more about the larger scale coastal rewilding project.