{"id":535849,"date":"2026-04-17T11:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/535849\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T11:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:18:12","slug":"sussex-trawling-ban-new-protections-for-marine-habitats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/535849\/","title":{"rendered":"Sussex trawling ban: new protections for marine habitats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Sussex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (IFCA) hopes the announcement of a ban in the Beachy Head East Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) will help conserve some of the most important marine habitats within the Sussex district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robert Pearson, chief officer at Sussex IFCA, says the chalk reef that makes up the Beachy Head East MCZ not only provides &#8220;valuable habitat&#8221; for some important fish species but also valuable nursery areas and juvenile feeding grounds for those species.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bottom trawling is viewed by many conservationists as damaging and indiscriminate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The practice sees weighted nets dragged along the seabed to catch fish and can lead to the destruction of reefs and other marine habitats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sussex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (IFCA) hopes the announcement of a ban in the Beachy Head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-535849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}