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July 16, 2014 by Marine Directorate Communications No Comments | Category Marine News from other Organisations

Fishermen scraping the bottom of the barrel in the English Channel

Decades of overfishing in the English Channel has resulted in the removal of many top predators from the sea and left fishermen ‘scraping the barrel’ for increasing amounts of shellfish to make up their catch. Sharks, rays, cod, haddock and many other species at the head of the food chain are at historic lows with many removed from the area completely.

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