Greenpeace throws rocks to the seabed
Scientific popularizer Javier Peña explains in a video Greenpeace’s technique against trawling
The goal is that the trawl net remains stuck in the rocks and cannot drag on the seabed
In British waters, they have turned nearly 100 kilometers of Cornish coastline into trawl-free territory
What’s the matter launched greenpeace hundreds giant rock on the seabed? That’s the question many people ask themselves when faced with images showing huge masses of granite falling from larger ships into oceans around the world. Not that the environmental NGO intends to form some sort of breakwater, but protect and protect immediately several sea areas of one of the most cruel forms of fishing: obstacle.
The NGO Greenpeace is in the fight to save marine life from longliners
The maneuver was noticed by Greenpeace last September, but that’s when scientific popularizers published it javier pen an explanatory video on Twitter when it caught attention and went viral.
The goal, to prevent them from destroying the seabed
The purpose of throwing boulders into the sea is that snagged trawl nets in it and cannot drag on the ocean floor, destroying everything in its path. In British waters, they have released so many blocks that they have turned nearly 100 kilometers of Cornish coastline into free territory to explore.
Greenpeace pointed out that to ensure the protection and security of this area, write and communicate the exact location of these blocks, so ships know where they are and can’t cross their lines. Although, remember, these industrial fishing vessels are not allowed to fish there as it is a protected area.
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A protected marine reserve that is not respected
According to Peña, this action “uncover hypocrisy The British government, which is the same as the European Union countries and most of the world”. allowed systematically: trawling”.
The ecologist recounts how this destructive fishing method works: “It consists of casting giant nets that drag down the bottom and take everything that is there: corals, crustaceans, algae, fish of all kinds, rays, dolphins, the ocean floor itself… all. Everyone, to catch one species and the rest will be thrown into the sea as waste.”
Greenpeace recalled in a statement that “in the last 18 months alone, industrial fishing vessels have gone by 19,000 hours of fishing within this area. Our new rock barrier will ensure that one of the most exploited parts of this Marine Protected Area is off limits to bottom trawling.”
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