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Help UK seas recover to deliver £50bn in benefits, report urges
Emily Beament, Yahoo! Finance Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism
The study by WWF and Sky Ocean Rescue warns that a third of the UK’s fisheries are overfished, while there have been huge declines in important habitats such as seagrass meadows, oyster reefs and salt marshes.
Just 1% of the waters around the UK are fully protected and in 2019 the seas failed to meet Government standards on good environmental health in 11 out of 15 areas, including those relating to birds, fish and seabed habitats.
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