Resounding victory for British environment and science, crushing defeat for industrial fishing and the European Union

On 28 April 2025, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague largely upheld the UK government’s decision of March 2024 to ban an industrial fishing technique in Scottish and English waters of the North Sea. This historic decision formally recognises the legitimacy of the UK’s approach, based on scientific data and the precautionary principle, to protecting marine biodiversity, and has put an end to the cabal of a coalition of European states seeking to reduce the UK’s environmental ambitions.

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