One GreenpeaceUK campaigner said the Marine Management Organization is 'using intimidation tactics to block ocean defenders, while brazenly allowing industrial fishing vessels to destroy seabed habitats in our so-called marine protected areas.'
"Right now, there's an industrial fishing frenzy happening in U.K. waters, and what's our government doing about it?" Will McCallum, head of oceans at the group,at the time."Greenpeace U.K. has created this underwater boulder barrier as a last resort to protect the oceans. We'd much rather the government just did their job."
The campaigner reiterated Greenpeace's call for action to block destructive fishing in MPAs after the government thwarted plans"to protect our oceans" by dropping more boulders in the South West Deeps MPA.