Sewage crisis putting people off sea swimming

A Conservative Environment Network (CEN) report put forward proposals to strengthen marine protections by introducing more highly protected marine areas (HPMAs).

Designating a site as an HPMA would ban all fishing and seabed mining in the area, which the report argued should be done in places “guided by ecological evidence”.

It also argued that instead of building more seawalls and groynes to tackle coastal flooding and erosion, nature-based solutions such as dunes and saltmarsh should be prioritised as primary defences instead.

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