03 Nov 2026
Greenpeace drops boulder barrier in UK’s most trawled offshore MPA
Photo by Christian Paul Stobbe Greenpeace UK has placed boulders weighing up to two tonnes on the seabed in the Southern North Sea Marine Protected Area. The campaign group says the barrier has effectively closed 116 km² of the site to bottom trawling. The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has since published nine reported boulder […]