Greenpeace campaigners have built an underwater “boulder barrier” to stop damaging fishing in a protected area of the English Channel.
Activists have dropped a series of boulders from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza in the Offshore Brighton marine protected area to close off nearly 55 square nautical miles of the sea from bottom trawling.
The environmental group says bottom trawling, in which heavy weighted nets are dragged over the seabed to catch fish, is ploughing up the sensitive seabed habitat for which the area is protected.
Celebrities including Thandie Newton have put their names to boulders forming the barrier in the sea (Suzanne Plunkett/Greenpeace/PA)
Greenpeace campaigners have built an underwater “boulder barrier” to stop damaging fishing in a protected area of the English Channel.
Activists have dropped a series of boulders from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza in the Offshore Brighton marine protected area to close off nearly 55 square nautical miles of the sea from bottom trawling.
The environmental group says bottom trawling, in which heavy weighted nets are dragged over the seabed to catch fish, is ploughing up the sensitive seabed habitat for which the area is protected.
Celebrities including Thandie Newton have put their names to boulders forming the barrier in the sea (Suzanne Plunkett/Greenpeace/PA)