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Recommendation 14
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Call on Government to ban seabed damaging practices within offshore Marine Protected Areas
Recommendation
We call on the Government to ban seabed damaging practices, such as bottom trawling, dredging and mining for aggregates, within offshore Marine Protected Area boundaries. (Recommendation, Paragraph 62)
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 9 September 2025. Response attribution to this recommendation has not been verified. Read the response document ↗