Tag: coral reef

• Monday, June 9th 2025 - 09:12 UTC

  UK Government wants to end bottom trawling to protect MPAs sea beds; 12 weeks consultation

  

  Bottom trawling – a fishing method that involves dragging large nets along the sea floor – could be banned across more vulnerable areas of English seas. The government is committed to protecting UK oceans and has outlined plans to ban the destructive practice in more Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). The measures would help protect rare marine animals, as well as the delicate sea-beds on which they rely, from indiscriminate and potentially irreversible damage.

• Thursday, March 7th 2019 - 05:47 UTC

  Environmental disaster: Owner of cargo ship grounded in Solomon Islands coral reef apologizes

  

  The owner of a grounded cargo ship that is leaking oil into World Heritage-listed waters in the Solomon Islands has apologized for the environmental disaster but denied the crew were drunk when the accident happened.