A Royal Commission has recommended that fishing should be banned in a third of UK waters to save threatened species

Posted on by Duncan Philpott

It is hard to imagine that we should tolerate a similar scale of destruction on land but, because it happens at sea, the damage is largely hidden

It is hard to imagine that we should tolerate a similar scale of destruction on land but, because it happens at sea,
the damage is largely hidden”

SIR TOM BLUNDELL,
CHAIRMAN OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION