<p>Action taken to prevent bottom trawling in the marine protected area and conserve porpoise populations</p><p>Greenpeace activists have dropped boulders in the North Sea to snag the dragnets of industrial trawlers fishing in a marine protected area.</p><p>Activists onboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise dropped the giant stones to form an underwater barrier around the Southern North Sea marine protected area (MPA) – the UK’s most bottom-trawled MPA.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/nov/02/greenpeace-boulder-barrier-north-sea-industrial-fishing-bottom-trawling-marine-protected-area">Continue reading...</a>
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Greenpeace activists create ‘boulder barrier’ in North Sea to deter industrial fishing
<p>Action taken to prevent bottom trawling in the marine protected area and conserve porpoise populations</p><p>Greenpeace activists have dropped boulders in the North Sea to snag the dragnets of industrial trawlers fishing in a marine protected area.</p><p>Activists onboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise dropped the giant stones to form an underwater barrier around the Southern North Sea marine protected area (MPA) – the UK’s most bottom-trawled MPA.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/nov/02/greenpeace-boulder-barrier-north-sea-industrial-fishing-bottom-trawling-marine-protected-area">Continue reading...</a>