Hi John

Whichever party they voted for, whether leave or remain - new polling shows that the country is united against supertrawlers fishing in our marine protected areas. [1] And in a week over 125,000 people have called on the government to do so.

Supertrawlers are massive industrial fishing vessels that use huge nets up to a mile long - they shouldn’t be fishing in areas designed to protect the UK’s vulnerable ocean life, like dolphins and porpoises. But unbelievably, right now, it’s legal. Can you help change that?

Last week, we exposed the government’s ocean hypocrisy. They claim to be global champions of marine protection - but we found that supertrawlers were able to spend 123 days fishing in ‘protected’ parts of UK waters last year - that’s four whole months! The government can’t credibly call for global ocean protection when they’re not protecting seas at home. [2]

The government has said that Brexit is a chance for them to strengthen ocean protections at home - and with negotiations ongoing they must seize this opportunity to get proper protection for our marine life by banning supertrawlers and other destructive fishing from vulnerable parts of our waters. Can you put the pressure on and make sure they do? [3]

Banning supertrawlers and other destructive fishing from our protected waters won’t just help heal our oceans, it could also help small scale fishers who’ve had their livelihoods suffer at the hands of the industrial fishing industry for decades.

Thank you for everything you do,
Anthony and the oceans team

P.S. Join a local group near you for a watch party in June to find out more about supertrawlers and how we're planning to ban them from marine protected areas.

Notes:
[1] Four in five want supertrawler banned in marine protected areas, poll shows 
[2] Supertrawlers 'making a mockery' of UKs protected seas
[3] Gove calls for 30 per cent of world's oceans to be protected by 2030

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