The government said that a “disastrous” type of fishing restriction that draws large nets with seaflor can be increased in English water.
The proposal will expand the restriction from the UK’s offshore regions to 18,000 km 2 to 48,000 km 2 (about 18,500 square mi) that is already preserved as preserved. The plan is under 12-week industry counseling.
A United Nations conference begins in France today amid a warning from Sir David Atonboro, which rotates downwards, destroying the areas of seabed and marine life.
A major goal of the conference is for more countries including the UK, which confirms a treaty to keep a third of international water in protected areas by 2030.
Speaking before the summit, Sir David told Prince William They were “wasted” by the method of fishing.
The latest documentary ocean of naturalist with David Etanboro showed new footage of a lower trolling net bulldozing through silt on the seaflor and scooping indiscriminately to the species.
Last week, MPs of the Environment Audit Committee renewed calls to ban travaling, dreging and mining below for aggregation on seabed known as marine protected areas (MPAS).
The expansion proposed by the government will cover 41 out of 181 MPA of England, and will protect rare maritime animals and rely on delicate seabed.
It states that it has made a detailed evaluation in the damage caused by houses and species.
Environment Secretary Steve Reid said “Our oceans will be unchanged without immediate action”.
Mike Cohen, the Chief Executive Officer of the UK National Federation of Fisherman’s organizations, called the decision “disappointing” and pushed back on the claims of environmental impact.
He said, “Trolling does not harm most of the seabed. The trolls penetrate the sediment very rarely, if in all, most areas and trolling are done for more than 100 years,” he said.
“Sensitive seabed features have survived for more than a century of fishing today, suggesting that trolling does not occur at those places or they are not sensitive to it,” said Mr. Cohen.
The 12-week consultation will run till 1 September and will seek the ideas of the maritime and fishing industry.
Ariana Densham, the head of the oceans at the Greenpeace UK, said the consultation “eventually finished a longer of a process initiated by the previous government”.
The Wildlife Trust said it hoped that the extended ban would be “rapid”.
This would be a “victory for both nature and climate”, said Jone Edwards, director of the Trust’s policy and public affairs.
Pressure to confirm more countries is also creating High sea treaty At the Ocean Conference in Nice.
The treaty was agreed by 193 countries to put 30% of international water protected areas two years ago.
The treaty will not apply until it is confirmed by 60 countries. It was announced at the inauguration of the conference that the additional 15 countries confirmed the treaty on Monday, but it only brings up to 47. The UK is one of the countries that have not yet been confirmed.
President Macron, whose country is co -in -law with Costa Rica, shared the news with governments in attendance at the conference – it met Cheers from the room.
Both he and his counterpart President Rodrigo Chews also spoke of their concern about deep marine mining, and called for a stay.
“The ocean is not for sale. We are talking about a common shared good,” said President Macron. I think this hunter is insanity to initiate economic action that will disrupt deep seas, disrupt biodiversity, destroying it. ,
He was speaking in the context of the decision made by President Trump in April to start issuing permits to drill deep sea – in the hope that important minerals could be recovered.
It goes against a decade long international interaction to have a global agreement as to how any deep sea resources can be shared. China called the move at that time, at that time there was a “violation” of international law.
More than 2,000 marine scientists recommended that deep sea discovery is temporarily stopped unless there is no research to understand the potential effects on the ecosystem.
