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Call to end overfishing to save British fish supper as key stocks face collapse

Half of UK’s top commercial fish stocks are either overfished to critically low levels or being overexploited, a report from Oceana UK warns.

The Independent UK · Oct 7, 2025

Only 0.5% of 90,000 oil slicks reported over five-year period, analysis finds

Pollution incidents reported between 2014 and 2019 were compared against scientific study that used satellite imagery to count slicks

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2025

Bottom trawling in European waters costs society up to €11bn a year, new study finds

Ocean experts found that the economic costs mostly come from carbon emissions caused by churning up the seabed.

Euronews · Mar 25, 2025

‘Feeble’ curbs will ban bottom trawling in only three marine parks in England

UK government’s piecemeal response to harmful practice attacked as too slow to stop ‘industrial fishing frenzy’

The Guardian - UK · Jan 19, 2023

Britain’s sewage crisis: ‘I only swam for 20 minutes but that evening I began to feel nauseous and dizzy’

The pollution of the country’s waterways has reached critical levels — as swimmers complain of sickness and wildlife becomes affected, Claire Cohen investigates who’s to blame

Evening Standard · Aug 25, 2022

Warning more sewage could wash up on beaches over bank holiday as most affected areas revealed

Surfers Against Sewage said it did not take exceptionally heavy rainfall for raw sewage to be flushed out in storm overflows

Wales Online · Aug 24, 2022