Submitted on Wednesday 15th May 2019
Rejected on Monday 17th June 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Protect one third of UK waters from all commercial fishing.
Nature is collapsing in the sea even faster than on land, and fishing has been identified as the primary cause. Protecting one third of UK waters from all commercial fishing would increase catches due to the 'spillover effect,' improve biodiversity, and would be relatively inexpensive to monitor.
At present, we are rapidly destroying the nature we depend on, nowhere more rapidly than the sea. The 2019 IPBES report identified this, and attributed it mostly to commercial fishing. Marine 'Protected' Areas allow destructive practices like trawling, and less than 0.1% of these exclude commercial fishing. Commercial fishing should be excluded from at least 33% of UK seas, protecting nature whilst boosting catches (Sala, 2018). Installing monitoring equipment would cost just £5mn (WWF, 2017).
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