The North Sea’s Dogger Bank, a fishing area for as long as there has been fishing, now apparently needs to be protected from the effects of damaging fishing gears.
Yet dotting the seabed with steel structures driven a hundred feet into the seabed, seems to be acceptable. The North Sea today is strewn with windfarms, and fishing grounds are being steadily lost. It is increasingly noticeable that once other interests require access to the seabed, fishing is shunted aside, such as in areas where exploratory drilling for oil and gas is apparently acceptable, while those same areas remain closed to fishing to protect supposedly vulnerable fish stocks.
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