Close
Environmental groups have welcomed government proposals to ban the destructive fishing practice known as bottom trawling in half of England’s protected seas. Jonny Hughes, the senior policy manager at the Blue Marine Foundation, an ocean conservation charity, said: “Conservation policy is awash with shiny new announcements and impressive sounding targets whereas what is needed is actual delivery. This, at first glance seems to be about delivering conservation. We need to see the full details, but initial reading is positive.” Attenborough, who was interviewed by Prince William before the UN ocean conference, which opens on Monday, said he was appalled by the footage in his film, Ocean. “If you did anything like it on land, everyone would be up in arms,” he said.
Read The Guardian article here.
