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Wildlife campaigners fear Brexit will see record levels of dolphins washed up dead on British beaches

Wildlife campaigners fear that more dolphins will be found washed up dead on British beaches – because of BREXIT. Almost 200 dolphins and porpoises have been found dead on Cornish beaches already this year with the sharpest-ever rise recorded between January and April. Most of the protection for the mammals comes from the EU but […]

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2017-07-04 17:14
in Environment, News, Politics
FILE PICTURE - Campaigner Lindy Hingley at Slapton Sands with a rare infant porpoise that was washed up on the beach. See SWNS story SWDOLPHIN; Wildlife campaigners fear that more dolphins will be found washed up dead on British beaches - because of BREXIT. Almost 200 dolphins and porpoises have been found dead on Cornish beaches already this year with the sharpest-ever rise recorded between January and April. Most of the protection for the mammals comes from the EU but once we leave campaigners say even more will die with no replacement legislation currently proposed. A petition urging Fisheries Minister George Eustice to put laws in place protecting dolphins, porpoises and whales once Britain leaves the EU has now got nearly 55,000 signatures.

FILE PICTURE - Campaigner Lindy Hingley at Slapton Sands with a rare infant porpoise that was washed up on the beach. See SWNS story SWDOLPHIN; Wildlife campaigners fear that more dolphins will be found washed up dead on British beaches - because of BREXIT. Almost 200 dolphins and porpoises have been found dead on Cornish beaches already this year with the sharpest-ever rise recorded between January and April. Most of the protection for the mammals comes from the EU but once we leave campaigners say even more will die with no replacement legislation currently proposed. A petition urging Fisheries Minister George Eustice to put laws in place protecting dolphins, porpoises and whales once Britain leaves the EU has now got nearly 55,000 signatures.

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Wildlife campaigners fear that more dolphins will be found washed up dead on British beaches – because of BREXIT.

Almost 200 dolphins and porpoises have been found dead on Cornish beaches already this year with the sharpest-ever rise recorded between January and April.

Most of the protection for the mammals comes from the EU but once we leave campaigners say even more will die with no replacement legislation currently proposed.

A petition urging Fisheries Minister George Eustice to put laws in place protecting dolphines, porpoises and whales once Britain leaves the EU has now got nearly 55,000 signatures.

Danny Groves, of Whale and Dolphin Conservation charity, said: “Thousands of dolphins, porpoises and whales die in fishing gear every year in UK seas.

“Most of the protection they have comes from the EU, but after Brexit they won’t even have that. What then?

“Now is the time to stop this suffering and so we are campaigning to get English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish governments to make sure effective laws are in place to protect dolphins, porpoises and whales in UK seas after Britain leaves the EU.

“The point is that they will be exposed without new laws and that is what we are campaigning for.”

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EU law currently states that marine ecosystems should be protected through ‘technical measures’ by fisheries and the incidental capture and killing does not have a significant negative impact on the species.

British government is yet to state what will replace it after Brexit.

Ruth Williams, marine conservation manager at Cornwall Wildlife Trust, added: “The concern is legislation will not be carried over and could weaken things after we leave the EU.

“We want to use the opportunity of leaving the EU to strengthen legislation.”

But Lindy Hingley, the founder and principal of Brixham Sea Watch, blamed the deaths on foreign trawlers – and said Brexit was a good way of regaining control of UK waters.

“I’m not just saying that because it’s easy to blame them,” she said.

“If it had not been for the dolphins, I would’ve voted to stay in the EU.

“I believed the only way dolphins in our waters had protection was to control the states that were killing them – mainly French, Dutch and Belgium trawlers.”

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