Eighty percent of people agree that marine wildlife should be treated with the same care as land-based wildlife, a new survey has found.
The independent research was conducted by Savanta for The Wildlife Trusts, ahead of National Marine Week (26th July to 10th August), which is the Trusts’ annual celebration of the seas.
Plus, when told about bottom trawling, which is an industrialised form of fishing during which nets are dragged along the seabed, 57% of people said they were now more likely to buy sustainably caught fish.
If people already mistakenly think existing protections go further than they really do, I’m worried Reform could spin any attempts to strengthen them as Labour trying to screw over fishermen as part of their everyone except us hates fishermen agenda they’ve been pushing since before they were Reform and before the Brexit referendum was even announced. That was something that resonated with voters during the referendum campaign, despite being nonsense, so it could work again.