Operation Ocean Witness in the English Channel

Conservative MPs, Sir Peter Bottomley and Bob Seely, pictured with the crew of the Sea Beaver, in the Isle of Wight.

Operation Ocean Witness is a six month Greenpeace UK operation, involving a new boat called Sea Beaver. The team will patrol the UK’s protected areas off the south coast and do what the government has so far failed to do - protect the UK’s marine protected areas from destructive fishing, a key Brexit promise which has been broken. Operation Ocean Witness will operate out of Newhaven from June until Autumn 2021.