Several more NGOs have followed Greenpeace in decrying what they have called illegal fishing on the North Sea's Dogger Bank. Greenpeace said the inert boulders, which they were spacing at precise intervals inside the Dogger Bank protected area, would not have a significant impact … Activists close almost 50 square miles of the Dogger Bank protected area in the North Sea to all destructive bottom trawling. Greenpeace places boulders in Dogger Bank to halt destructive fishing. Greenpeace activists drops boulders into the North Sea to stop trawlers fishing in the Dogger Bank conservation area. According to the JNCC the Dogger Bank’s protected feature is in “Unfavourable” condition. News People Greenpeace vows to carry on dropping boulders on Dogger Bank despite warnings Greenpeace has vowed to continue dropping boulders onto a marine reserve to protect it … Greenpeace investigators on board the Arctic Sunrise witnessed extensive bottom trawling, which directly damages the Dogger Bank’s sandbanks, the protected feature of the MPA. Dogger Bank Wind Farm is an offshore wind farm being developed in three phases – Dogger Bank A, Dogger Bank B and Dogger Bank C – located between 130km and 190km from the North East coast of England at their nearest points. The Greenpeace ship Esperanza was heading to Hamburg to pick up more boulders weighing up to three tonnes each after dropping 17 yesterday in the Dogger Bank Special Area of Conservation. The Dutch fishermen’s organisation, VisNed has filed a formal complaint against Greenpeace for willfully endangering fishermen. Granite boulders were … Some 11 out of 19 bottom trawlers observed fishing in the Dogger Bank in June 2020 were 'AIS dark' [untracked] which Greenpeace says is a "serious breach of UK and international maritime law". Read also Greenpeace UK pledges to … But when one of our vessels, the Arctic Sunrise, visited the Dogger Bank on a research trip back in June 2020, we were shocked to discover just how extensive bottom trawling was in … Greenpeace claims it was 'forced to take action' in the North Sea protected zone to stop bottom trawling; The Dogger Bank is a protected area of the sea designed to … The complaint has been lodged over the organisation’s dumping of three-tonne boulders in a Marine Protected Area, also known as an area of special conservation on the Dogger Bank in the North Sea.. Greenpeace has said that the action is being … It was created with the sole purpose of protecting the seabed. The Dogger Bank protected area is one of these paper parks. Collectively they will become the world’s largest offshore wind farm.