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A Greenpeace boat on the River Thames by the Houses of Parliament in central London
A FLOTILLA of fishing boats sailed up the Thames to Westminster today in protest against the government’s failure to protect Britain’s fish stocks and the marine environment following Brexit.
Fishing fleet skippers and Greenpeace say industrial fishing by factory vessels is destroying fish stocks and seabed ecosystems.
The group warns that the economies of British fishing communities dependent on fleets of small fishing boats are being wrecked, especially on the southern North Sea and south coasts.
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
This time it is joined by famed Amazon union organiser Chris Smalls and the new vessel, the Handala, will carry baby formula for Gaza’s starving children just weeks after Israeli forces abducted the Madleen’s crew in international waters, reports ANA VRACAR
