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The UK’s Environment secretary has announced plans to ban bottom trawling from 41 protected areas within English seas, spanning some 30,000km2 to “conserve the vulnerable underwater life” and allow for recovery from the destructive practice. Clare Brook, CEO of the ocean advocacy group, Blue Marine Foundation has called the announcement “highly encouraging and very welcome. If delivered (and remember this is a consultation) it will mean that England’s offshore MPAs are at last given the protection they claim. This sort of political leadership is exactly what is needed, half way through the decade where the world needs to address urgently the climate and biodiversity crises.”
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