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How to stop trawling from trashing the North Sea

How to stop trawlers from trashing the North Sea

10 October 2020

9:00 AM

10 October 2020

9:00 AM

Recently Greenpeace dropped a boatload of granite boulders on to Dogger Bank, a permanent threat to any boat that attempts to drag a trawl net across the sandy sea-bottom. One of the biggest boulders had my name painted on it, because Greenpeace asked and I said yes. And in saying yes, I crossed a line that I have never crossed before in 40 years of writing about the environment.

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