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.The gravel and rock seabed is home to wildlife including starfish, hermit crabs and anemones and is a rich hunting ground for skates, rays and other fish.Any trawlers trying to fish over the boulders will get their gear snagged and ruined on the rocks.The action comes after Greenpeace constructed a boulder barrier to protect seabed in the Dogger Bank in the North Sea from bottom trawling.The Government has since proposed new bylaws to completely close Dogger Bank and South Dorset protected areas to bottom trawling, and partially close two other.
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