Hi John,

 

The clock is ticking to protect the UK’s oceans. We have just 4 months, add your name.

In December, the government will hand out its fishing licenses for 2023. These licenses give the green light to an industrial fishing frenzy in parts of the ocean that are supposed to be protected - a disaster for delicate ocean food chains, left behind fishing communities and the economy. [1]

 

Our government is in flux right now and stopping industrial fishing has become the bottom of their list – but soon that could all change. 

 

To make the case to the new Prime Minister we need as many people as possible to get behind us and that’s where you come in John. Can you support our simple but effective solution to destructive fishing?

By September we'll have a new Prime Minister and a fresh opportunity to convince them to tweak these licenses to ban all types of destructive fishing from our protected waters in one go.

 

Time and time again our government has failed to keep out destructive fishing from UK waters. So in order to get ocean protection back on the agenda, and to get the new PMs attention - we’re having to take matters into our own hands. 

 

Here’s our plan: this summer we’re taking the Greenpeace ship back into UK waters and building a massive boulder barrier on the seafloor in a last-ditch effort to keep out destructive fishing vessels and push ocean protection back on the agenda. 

 

This will be risky and there’s a chance we might be stopped by authorities – but we've tried other avenues, and this is the only thing that has made the government sit up and listen. [2]

 

We'd prefer it if the government would just get on with protecting the oceans, but it’s just not happening John. This is our last resort.  

 

So now we’re going to do our bit to protect the UK’s oceans this summer and we would love it if you did yours by signing the petition.

 

Tell the government to speed up ocean protection.

Industrial fishing is a massive problem. Huge industrial trawlers, with vast nets are emptying out our oceans, leaving small independent fishermen without anything to catch. The government’s timid, piecemeal approach to ocean protection has been ineffective and time is running out to save our marine ecosystems. [3]

 

The government's current plan rests on banning certain types of destructive fishing from one bit of the ocean at a time. While that’s better than nothing, this approach is too slow and too timid. We need them to move faster and ban all types of destructive overfishing from all supposedly protected parts of the ocean - called Marine Protected Areas. [4]

 

That’s why we are calling on them to change the fishing licenses they hand out in December to ban destructive fishing in all Marine Protected Areas. 

 

It’s a simple solution that speeds up ocean protection.

 

Thanks for all that you do,

 

Will

Greenpeace UK

 

 

NOTES:

 

[1] UK fishing licences for bottom-trawling could be unlawful, says Oceana

[2] Greenpeace expands boulder barrier in marine protected area as government fails to strengthen safeguards

[3] Fishers declare emergency in English Channel and Southern North Sea with Greenpeace

[4] Greenpeace reaction to the government closing Dogger Bank to bottom trawling

 

 

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