UK MPs call for ban on bottom trawling in protected marine areas

<p>Environment committee also wants to outlaw dredging and mining due to destructive effects on seabed and marine life</p><p>Ministers must ban bottom trawling for fish in marine protected areas, an influential group of MPs has said, because the destructive practice is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/20/hoovered-up-from-the-deep-33000-hours-of-seabed-trawling-revealed-in-protected-uk-waters">devastating the seabed and marine life</a>.</p><p>The UK parliament’s environmental audit committee called for a ban to encompass dredging and mining as well as the bottom trawling of fish in the 900,000 sq km covered by nearly 180 marine protected areas.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/05/uk-mps-call-for-ban-on-bottom-trawling-in-protected-marine-areas">Continue reading...</a>