Today is World Oceans Day and Malcolm Hunter of the Marine Reserves campaign team writes:

A study published last year, in the journal Science, identified the marine environment around the UK as among the most degraded in the world, as a result of human activities. Many fish stocks are close to commercial, or even actually extinction and much of the sea bed has been turned into a lifeless desert, as a result of the damage done by activities such as bottom trawling and aggregate dredging.

Read the full article in the Leicester Mercury.