SUSSEX COAST REWILDING
Jul 25, 2021
3 minutes
By Jessie McGregor
A good day for our seas! On the 24th of March 2021 a new law – The Nearshore Trawling Byelaw – was approved by the UK Government. It sounds rather dry, but it couldn’t be wetter! The law made it illegal to use bottom trawling fishing practices between Shoreham and Selsey… and our beautiful Sussex coast is already the better for it.
Bottom trawling is an incredibly destructive way of fishing which has
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