Greenpeace to drop more boulders to protect seabed

[anonymous-user]

https://news.sky.com/story/greenpeace-plans-boulde...


I grew up with a family commercial fishing business in West Wales.
We hated the trawlers.

Superb news this. Long may they keep doing it.

[Astacus]

I whole heartedly agree. I am not, however, a big fan of GreenPeace. They are too big and too unaccountable and have achieved a level of righteousness that they believe gives them the right to do what they want.

[poo at Paul's]

Mr Spoon said:

https://news.sky.com/story/greenpeace-plans-boulde...


I grew up with a family commercial fishing business in West Wales.
We hated the trawlers.

Superb news this. Long may they keep doing it.

Not great for the fish they land on.

[FourWheelDrift]

And how much marine life (inc giant fan mussels) are they squashing dropping all these big boulders?

[bloomen]

FourWheelDrift said:

And how much marine life (inc giant fan mussels) are they squashing dropping all these big boulders?

All of it.

[anonymous-user]

Astacus said:

I whole heartedly agree. I am not, however, a big fan of GreenPeace. They are too big and too unaccountable and have achieved a level of righteousness that they believe gives them the right to do what they want.

You’ll find accounts, org charts, governance etc on their website if you care to look….

[anonymous-user]

bloomen said:

FourWheelDrift said:

And how much marine life (inc giant fan mussels) are they squashing dropping all these big boulders?

All of it.

Look at it this way, should anything be killed when they drop the boulders, it preserves many, many more of the same species.

[valiant]

Bottom trawling is very destructive especially when used by these new type super trawlers. They can clean the sea bed completely and often catch stuff that can’t or won’t be put to market and thrown back in the sea.

If you want to preserve fishing and their grounds for future generations then bottom trawling is not the way to go.

[grumbledoak]

I am not generally a fan of Greenpeace, but this sounds like a good idea.

More of this sort of thing, please.

[anonymous-user]

You wouldn't believe the destruction trawlers did 25 years ago let alone what they do now.

The fish will move before the boulder lands. They can of course swim.
Any that don't will be an unfortunate consequence but much better than destruction of entire species.

We need these around the coast on every trawlable area.

There are other ways to catch fish and crab.

[eharding]

pablo said:

bloomen said:

FourWheelDrift said:

And how much marine life (inc giant fan mussels) are they squashing dropping all these big boulders?

All of it.

Look at it this way, should anything be killed when they drop the boulders, it preserves many, many more of the same species.

I think at least one seafloor cable runs through the South West Deeps (East) MPA? - not sure how those react either to bottom trawling or having boulders dropped on them.

Wasn't this also the general area that there was a lot of kerfuffle just before the invasion of Ukraine about possible Russian submarine fkery afoot and being up to some shenanigans with undersea cables? The chances of a Russian submarine being sunk by a Greenpeace boulder are of course very remote, which is probably a good thing because I would most likely piss myself to death laughing should such a thing actually occur.

[Smiler.]

poo at Paul's said:

Mr Spoon said:

https://news.sky.com/story/greenpeace-plans-boulde...


I grew up with a family commercial fishing business in West Wales.
We hated the trawlers.

Superb news this. Long may they keep doing it.

Not great for the fish they land on.

They'll be carefully plaiced.

[nellyleelephant]

Smiler. said:

They'll be carefully plaiced.

I hope so, there'll be plenty of flatfish otherwise.

[wombleh]

Also not much of a fan but fair play on this one, good move.

Did smile at the MMO asking them not to do it but instead attend a workshop, yea that sounds like it’ll really help!

[Astacus]

pablo said:

Astacus said:

I whole heartedly agree. I am not, however, a big fan of GreenPeace. They are too big and too unaccountable and have achieved a level of righteousness that they believe gives them the right to do what they want.

You’ll find accounts, org charts, governance etc on their website if you care to look….

Very nice, but what has that got to do with the price of fish?

[anonymous-user]

Astacus said:

pablo said:

Astacus said:

I whole heartedly agree. I am not, however, a big fan of GreenPeace. They are too big and too unaccountable and have achieved a level of righteousness that they believe gives them the right to do what they want.

You’ll find accounts, org charts, governance etc on their website if you care to look….

Very nice, but what has that got to do with the price of fish?

Lots probably.

[Murph7355]

Really don't know why our govt doesn't ban these super trawlers from our waters.

How many are UK owned versus elsewhere? (I thought the Dutch had the monster ones?).

It seems obvious that they are highly questionable when it comes to sustainability.

[magpie215]

eharding said:

The chances of a Russian submarine being sunk by a Greenpeace boulder

Hunt for the Red Rocktober?

[glazbagun]

Murph7355 said:

Really don't know why our govt doesn't ban these super trawlers from our waters.

How many are UK owned versus elsewhere? (I thought the Dutch had the monster ones?).

It seems obvious that they are highly questionable when it comes to sustainability.

They don't care and never have. Even when we were under the Common Fisheries Policy we were shafting our own small boats to the benefit of bigger ones. It's even worse in Scotland.

https://www.marinet.org.uk/who-owns-the-uk-fishing...

Fishing is an important prop for politicians when they need some divisive squirrel, but it's just a pawn to be sacrificed for more valuable deals over something else.

[Byker28i]

Smiler. said:

They'll be carefully plaiced.

magpie215 said:

Hunt for the Red Rocktober?

Oh Bravo both of you