This morning Greenpeace prevented a fishing vessel from fishing in the proposed Dogger Bank Marine Reserve. Five activists in three inflatable boats blockaded the English owned Dutch operated beam trawler 'Johannes Calvijn', by positioning themselves along a line with buoys in the path of the vessel. The trawler passed the people in the water and sailed on.
The activists then approached another UK owned Dutch operated beam trawler 'Grietje Klaas' and attempted to prevent it setting its nets. The action is continuing now.
Greenpeace ship the MV Esperanza, currently in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea, was yesterday presented with a huge pile of discarded fish and other marine life by a Belgian fishing vessel.
This report describes the multiple threats now jeopardising the marine life and ecology of the North Sea and Baltic Sea. It proposes an approach to countering these threats involving the establishment of networks of large-scale marine reserves in which fishing and other extractive activities are prohibited. Finally, it considers what progress has already been made towards the effective conservation of the North and Baltic Seas, and assesses the opportunities towards that goal afforded by recent political developments.
A dead dolphin encased in ice was today delivered to the Government's doorstep by Greenpeace, in protest at the numbers of dolphins killed by UK fishing boats and the Government's lack of action to stop the problem.
The dolphin was killed by a trawler, and was recovered recently in the Channel by a Greenpeace ship investigating dolphin deaths caused by fishing fleets. The dolphin bears the tell-tale signs of having been caught in a net, including cut and torn fins and flipper and a broken beak and teeth.
