Crew Member of the Esperanza in the North Sea

Aboard an inflatable boat, Greenpeace technician Alan Greig, takes a digital recording of hydrophone signals coming from under the sea next to a sand and gravel extracting ship at Dogger Bank on the North Sea.

Unique identifier: GP0STO9LC

Type: Image

Shoot date: 17/07/2004

Locations: Europe, North Sea

Credit line: © Nick Cobbing / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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North Sea and Baltic Marine Reserves Tour

Greenpeace is touring the Baltic and North Sea, campaigning for the implementation of a network of marine reserves to protect fish stocks and allow the populations to recover. The seven suggested marine reserves are essential for the reproduction of fish or provide a home for special marine life like vulnerable shells, colorful cold water coral or dolphins. Greenpeace wants harmful activities like fishing, oil, gas or sand extraction, bottom trawling or dumping of waste to be prohibited in these reserves. Also the Esperanza team investigated the by-catch of a Belgian trawler. A two-hour fishing trip 'produced' 11.000 dead soil animals. The Dogger bank reserve is an area of 85.000 square kilometer which lies in the middle of the North Sea and is a part of the Dutch, German, English, Danish and Norwegian North Sea and is one of the seven suggested marine reserves. Only when these activities will be prohibited in the marine reserves, will nature and fish populations have a chance to recover. The current European management of the North Sea is totally fragmented. Every activity like fishery, nature management, shipping, oil and gas extraction, has its own policy. Because of this there is no univocal vision which prevents good management of these valuable areas.

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