The fishing vessel ‘Friendship’ shoots several flares at Greenpeace activists for preventing it from fishing in the proposed Dogger Bank Marine Reserve. Trawlers such as the ‘Friendship’ use big nets that destroy the seabed by ploughing into it as they pass, indiscriminately catching and killing everything in their path.
Greenpeace is proposing a Marine Reserve in the Dogger Bank, an area of 85,000 square kilometers in the middle of the North Sea. Marine reserves would protect the ecosystem and allow for the recovery of fish stocks.