ClientEarth, Stichting Doggerland, ARK Rewilding Nederland and Blue Marine Foundation took the Dutch government to court on 11 March, alleging that the administration has broken the law by allowing destructive bottom trawling practices in the protected North Sea area off the Dutch coast. The nature environmental organisations appeared before the District Court in The Hague to make their case. Dr Tom Appleby, Blue Marine’s Chief Legal Affairs Adviser, said “The Dogger Bank is the heart of the North Sea and is meant to have the same levels of protection in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. Yet the UK has closed nearly all of its portion to bottom trawling, Germany more than half and the Netherlands just over a quarter.”
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