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98% of UK's offshore MPAs experience seabed fishing activity like bottom trawling.
Please search and contact your MP (preferably by Twitter), asking them to support a ban on destructive bottom trawling and dredging in offshore marine protected areas.
Bottom trawling is a damaging fishing method used worldwide that drags heavy nets across the ocean floor, while dredges are rigid, often triangular structures that uses a mesh net attached to a steel scoop to rake the seafloor.
These fishing gear not only impact the seabed – damaging marine habitats crucial for biodiversity and carbon capture – but indiscriminately devastate marine wildlife.
A recent study - the first to look into the climate change impact of bottom trawling - found that the global emissions of bottom trawling are equivalent to those from the entire global aviation sector.
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