On Thursday 1 September last week, campaigners and crew on board Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise sailed to the western English Channel to make a portion of the South West Deeps off-limits to bottom-trawling.
The same vessel is currently in Poole harbour waiting to take on board more Portland stone boulders and carry out another boulder-dropping exercise somewhere in the Western Approaches.
The previous boulder drop was in an area seldom fished by UK fishing boats. The deeper waters are predominantly fished by Spanish long-liners and bottom trawlers with a few French and Irish vessels seen fishing in the area times.
