The UK is failing to meet basic standards for the health of its seas, according to a new government assessment. Defra’s latest UK Marine Strategy report shows the country is not achieving Good Environmental Status in 13 out of 15 indicators used to measure ocean health. The findings raise serious questions about why existing protections are not delivering meaningful recovery – and whether the gap between policy ambition and practical action has become impossible to ignore. Jonny Hughes, Fisheries Policy Lead at Blue Marine Foundation, said “Continued massive overfishing, refusal to ban bottom trawling even in supposedly protected areas and non-existent monitoring or enforcement means it’s hardly surprising that the seas are in such a bad state.”
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