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❌ 20,000+ hours of suspected bottom trawling WRECKED UK marine protected areas last year. 🚫 It’s a scandal. A ban is CRITICAL. Our Campaigns Director @alyxcampaigns.bsky.social explains why there’s hope, but only if we act now. 👉 Email govt to demand a ban: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...

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Tell the UK Government to End the Destruction of Our Marine Havens

Enough is enough. It’s time for a ban - starting yesterday. Take action with us, @bluemarinef.bsky.social & Only One to save UK seas. Email the Environment Secretary, Steve Reed, telling him to BAN bottom trawling in marine protected areas. 🚫✊ 💥 ACT: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-... 👈👈

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Bottom trawling is one of the world’s most destructive fishing practices. By dragging weighted nets along the ocean floor — some up to 240 meters wide — bottom trawling devastates coastal habitats, ki...

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❌ Promise made. Promise broken? The UK Environment Secretary, Steve Reed, VOWED to end bottom trawling. A year on, and we are STILL waiting. 3/4 🔽

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Ancient ocean habitats. Magnificent wildlife. Bottom trawling destroys it ALL. 🪸 So it's all the more SHOCKING that 90% of UK marine protected areas remain open to this destruction. It makes a mockery of the entire meaning of "marine PROTECTED"?! 2/4 🔽 Full report 👉 uk.oceana.org/reports/the-...

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UK's marine protected areas face over 20,000 hours of bottom trawling

🚨 BREAKING: 20,000+ HOURS of suspected bottom trawling WRECKED the UK’s offshore marine “protected” areas last year, our research shows! 🌊 That would score tracks on the seabed that would stretch EIGHT TIMES around the UK. All with the government's permission! 1/4 🔽 www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

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Bottom trawling is a fishing method where large, weighted nets are dragged across the seafloor by one or two boats to catch fish and other marine life that live on or near the bottom.

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Sophie Fresson 🪼 @sophiefresson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Some good ocean news for this sunny Friday!

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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It might seem like a loss on paper, but it’s a win in the water. 🌊 This news should empower the UK Govt to go even further for our #ocean. 🪸 Kicking destructive #bottomtrawling out of marine protected areas MUST be next. ✊ Take action here👉 act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...

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Tell the UK Government to End the Destruction of Our Marine Havens

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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

🚨 BREAKING: The UK's sandeel ban will stay in place in a VICTORY for the ocean & science! 🌊🎉 🐟 #Sandeels are vital food for puffins, porpoises & cod. Although the EU won its challenge to the ban on paper, the court confirms it was backed by science & is VITAL to healthy seas. 1/2 ⏬

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We’re done letting them hide the damage. #BigOil, your time is up. Take a look. Take a breath. Then #TakeAction. ACT 👉 act.oceana.org/page/165588/... 🗺️ MAP 👉 stopoffshoredrilling.org.uk/map SHARE NOW TO STOP THIS BEING BURIED. 9/9 @hugotagholm.bsky.social

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#BigOil may be playing dirty, but the facts are crystal clear. Oil and gas pollutes our seas and wrecks our #marine protected areas. It’s time for government to stop defending unlawful licences and start implementing the ban on all new oil and gas. 8/9 🔽

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That’s right - we don’t know how much #pollution is out there, because oil companies aren’t telling us. The map shows an awful picture, but the missing data means it’s even worse. 7/9 🔽

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To add insult to injury, our Sea Slick report found that when these permits were breached, and oil companies released more than they’re allowed to, roughly a third of reported incidents didn’t share the volume of oil released into the ocean. 6/9 🔽

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Shockingly, it’s even worse than it looks. Our map only exposes the hundreds of spills reported by the industry each year. But they also get permits to pump our #ocean with a byproduct called ‘produced water’, essentially a chemical soup laced with oil . 5/9 🔽

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Our live spill map uncovers an awful reality. In the last year alone, #BigOil were responsible for 79 spills in marine protected areas. The largest resulted in 11,170kg of chemicals spewing into a supposedly “protected” ocean haven. With each spill, Big Oil shows it can’t be trusted. 4/9 🔽

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Let’s be clear: oil pollution is toxic. Not just for our #marine wildlife, but for us too. These pollutants flood our seas and can contaminate the food we eat. It’s sickening. We mean that literally. 🤮 3/9 🔽

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For years, opaque reporting & weak regulation have allowed #oil giants to get away with polluting our seas. But oil spills aren’t just dirty; they’re deadly: 🛑 Lung lesions in dolphins ⚠️ Liver damage in whales ❌ Internal bleeding in seabirds 2/9 🔽

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