Britain and the European Union are set to go head-to-head over contested fishing rights in the first legal spat over trade since leaving the bloc. The United Kingdom has banned European vessels from catching the sandeel, a food of choice for British seabirds, in order to protect wildlife.
20,000 oysters being cleaned in the UK’s largest subtidal oyster reef restoration
The major marine restoration effort prepares new native oyster reef for deployment in the Solent
15 May 2026