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Petition · past parliament · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Ban fishing on a third of UK coastal for fish repopulation

Closed 402 signatures

What the petition asks

“We have far too few marine sanctuaries. We need to turn a third of all our coastal seas into properly protected areas, if we do that, our fishing grounds would recover and help sustain both humanity and the natural world.” David Attenborough
We are already in a climate crisis and in order to reverse the damage humans have created our oceans need to be healthy. Great biodiversity is needed to ensure healthy oceans. By creating no fishing zones this will also benefit fisherman as once there are more fish in the ocean they will spill into fishable zones. If we do not implement these measures everyone will suffer.

Timeline

21 Oct 2020 Petition opened for signatures
21 Apr 2021 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 402
Status Closed
Department Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Opened 21 Oct 2020
Closed 21 Apr 2021

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.