Dr Daisy Brickhill
@daisb.bsky.social
Science/nature writer and editor, head of comms for @OceanaUK.bsky.social. Did a PhD on starlings in the wilds of Scotland. Opinions are mine all mine. She/her
It really is heart breaking. Sustainable catch limits mean MORE fish in the long term. Everyone should be behind this.
💔 BREAKING: Mackerel catch limits set above what is sustainable
A 70% slash in quotas was recommended by science, but the estimated UK cut is just 60%. It's not enough.
This is how fish populations collapse & coastal livelihoods are put at risk 🐟
ACT NOW👉 act.oceana.org/page/178303/...
A 70% slash in quotas was recommended by science, but the estimated UK cut is just 60%. It's not enough.
This is how fish populations collapse & coastal livelihoods are put at risk 🐟
ACT NOW👉 act.oceana.org/page/178303/...
December 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
It really is heart breaking. Sustainable catch limits mean MORE fish in the long term. Everyone should be behind this.
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📢 Over 80 conservation organisations, land-managers and rural businesses have written to Government to warn that exempting sub-0.5 ha sites from BNG would remove 97% of planning applications from the UK’s only national nature compliance market.
November 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
📢 Over 80 conservation organisations, land-managers and rural businesses have written to Government to warn that exempting sub-0.5 ha sites from BNG would remove 97% of planning applications from the UK’s only national nature compliance market.
Gross gross gross. And incredibly destructive.
🚨 1,600+ fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the #COP30 climate summit in Brazil, outnumbering every single country’s delegation except Brazil, new analysis shows 🔽
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Gross gross gross. And incredibly destructive.
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Big Oil is pushing through 22 new oil fields in but we've exposed the true ocean impact of each one 🌊⚠️
Big Oil is playing games with our seas & "allowing any of these fields to proceed makes losers of us all" ❌
@oceanographicmag.bsky.social 🔽
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/marine-...
Big Oil is playing games with our seas & "allowing any of these fields to proceed makes losers of us all" ❌
@oceanographicmag.bsky.social 🔽
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/marine-...
Marine wildlife threatened by North Sea oil fields despite pledges - Oceanographic
Oceana UK warns that allowing North Sea oil and gas plans to proceed would cause severe harm to UK seas and marine life.
oceanographicmagazine.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Big Oil is pushing through 22 new oil fields in but we've exposed the true ocean impact of each one 🌊⚠️
Big Oil is playing games with our seas & "allowing any of these fields to proceed makes losers of us all" ❌
@oceanographicmag.bsky.social 🔽
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/marine-...
Big Oil is playing games with our seas & "allowing any of these fields to proceed makes losers of us all" ❌
@oceanographicmag.bsky.social 🔽
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/marine-...
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500 govt meetings with oil lobbyists last year ✓
22 new oil fields pending ✓
8 fields in or next to marine PROTECTED areas ✓
Our govt considering the true ocean impact ❌
Game over. The #OilFieldFiles are public.
📧 Email your MP to stop this → act.oceana.org/page/171529/...
22 new oil fields pending ✓
8 fields in or next to marine PROTECTED areas ✓
Our govt considering the true ocean impact ❌
Game over. The #OilFieldFiles are public.
📧 Email your MP to stop this → act.oceana.org/page/171529/...
November 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
500 govt meetings with oil lobbyists last year ✓
22 new oil fields pending ✓
8 fields in or next to marine PROTECTED areas ✓
Our govt considering the true ocean impact ❌
Game over. The #OilFieldFiles are public.
📧 Email your MP to stop this → act.oceana.org/page/171529/...
22 new oil fields pending ✓
8 fields in or next to marine PROTECTED areas ✓
Our govt considering the true ocean impact ❌
Game over. The #OilFieldFiles are public.
📧 Email your MP to stop this → act.oceana.org/page/171529/...
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BREAKING🚨: @Equinor has resubmitted its application to open the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK - Rosebank.
In the next weeks, the UK gov will decide to reject or approve this disaster project.
Equinor hasn’t given up, and neither will we. We’re stepping things up.
In the next weeks, the UK gov will decide to reject or approve this disaster project.
Equinor hasn’t given up, and neither will we. We’re stepping things up.
October 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
BREAKING🚨: @Equinor has resubmitted its application to open the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK - Rosebank.
In the next weeks, the UK gov will decide to reject or approve this disaster project.
Equinor hasn’t given up, and neither will we. We’re stepping things up.
In the next weeks, the UK gov will decide to reject or approve this disaster project.
Equinor hasn’t given up, and neither will we. We’re stepping things up.
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Desperately bleak new report from @oceanauk.bsky.social on the UK's collapsing fish stocks. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520088...
'Deep Decline': Half of UK's top 10 fish stocks critically low or overexploited
One-in-six UK fish stocks are in a critical condition but are still being fished beyond safe limits, new Oceana UK report warns
www.businessgreen.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Desperately bleak new report from @oceanauk.bsky.social on the UK's collapsing fish stocks. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520088...
Reposted by Dr Daisy Brickhill
🚨 BREAKING: Half the UK’s top 10 fish stocks are being overexploited
🐟 We’ve done one of the most comprehensive health checks of UK seas & the data is undeniable
⚠️ #Overfishing is emptying our seas, & it’s a political choice
📩 Tell PM Keir Starmer to act: act.oceana.org/page/178303/...
🐟 We’ve done one of the most comprehensive health checks of UK seas & the data is undeniable
⚠️ #Overfishing is emptying our seas, & it’s a political choice
📩 Tell PM Keir Starmer to act: act.oceana.org/page/178303/...
October 8, 2025 at 7:43 AM
🚨 BREAKING: Half the UK’s top 10 fish stocks are being overexploited
🐟 We’ve done one of the most comprehensive health checks of UK seas & the data is undeniable
⚠️ #Overfishing is emptying our seas, & it’s a political choice
📩 Tell PM Keir Starmer to act: act.oceana.org/page/178303/...
🐟 We’ve done one of the most comprehensive health checks of UK seas & the data is undeniable
⚠️ #Overfishing is emptying our seas, & it’s a political choice
📩 Tell PM Keir Starmer to act: act.oceana.org/page/178303/...
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“Our warnings [...] were ignored, & since then we've had to watch helplessly as the UK Govt sold out our seas & communities, allowing fishing pressure to build relentlessly as [...] industrial vessels squeezed out the small local boats" @hugotagholm.bsky.social
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
Warnings over collapsing fish stocks as experts advise ‘zero catch’ for cod
Conservationists call for action to follow scientific advice and end overfishing in the North Sea and west of Scotland.
www.independent.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
“Our warnings [...] were ignored, & since then we've had to watch helplessly as the UK Govt sold out our seas & communities, allowing fishing pressure to build relentlessly as [...] industrial vessels squeezed out the small local boats" @hugotagholm.bsky.social
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
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🌊 Scientist, adventurer & wildlife filmmaker Lizzie Daly calls out the devastation bottom-trawl fishing is inflicting on UK marine protected areas 🚨
Please help put a stop to this! Time is running out to have your say. ⌛
Take action with us here: only.one/act/uk-mpa-c... ✊
Please help put a stop to this! Time is running out to have your say. ⌛
Take action with us here: only.one/act/uk-mpa-c... ✊
September 18, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🌊 Scientist, adventurer & wildlife filmmaker Lizzie Daly calls out the devastation bottom-trawl fishing is inflicting on UK marine protected areas 🚨
Please help put a stop to this! Time is running out to have your say. ⌛
Take action with us here: only.one/act/uk-mpa-c... ✊
Please help put a stop to this! Time is running out to have your say. ⌛
Take action with us here: only.one/act/uk-mpa-c... ✊
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⚠️UK Govt is being urged to back 'bespoke' oil & gas licences 😡 This threatens our seas & climate, whilst doing NOTHING for our energy security. 'Bespoke' or not, government has already promised to END new oil & gas licensing @stopcambo.bsky.social
www.businessgreen.com/news/4518193...
www.businessgreen.com/news/4518193...
Campaigners slam proposals for 'bespoke' oil and gas licenses
Industry welcomes proposal to expand existing oil and gas fields, but campaigners warn such reforms would breach Labour's manifesto pledge to end issuance of new licenses
www.businessgreen.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
⚠️UK Govt is being urged to back 'bespoke' oil & gas licences 😡 This threatens our seas & climate, whilst doing NOTHING for our energy security. 'Bespoke' or not, government has already promised to END new oil & gas licensing @stopcambo.bsky.social
www.businessgreen.com/news/4518193...
www.businessgreen.com/news/4518193...
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🚨 JUST IN: Ocean Minister Emma Hardy has officially announced the UK Govt’s proposal to extend bottom trawling bans in English protected areas. If total bans go ahead this is a HUGE WIN! 🎉
Our Campaigns Director @alyxcampaigns.bsky.social delves into what we need to do to make sure this happens✊🌊
Our Campaigns Director @alyxcampaigns.bsky.social delves into what we need to do to make sure this happens✊🌊
June 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
🚨 JUST IN: Ocean Minister Emma Hardy has officially announced the UK Govt’s proposal to extend bottom trawling bans in English protected areas. If total bans go ahead this is a HUGE WIN! 🎉
Our Campaigns Director @alyxcampaigns.bsky.social delves into what we need to do to make sure this happens✊🌊
Our Campaigns Director @alyxcampaigns.bsky.social delves into what we need to do to make sure this happens✊🌊
Reposted by Dr Daisy Brickhill
🚨 BREAKING: Govt is proposing bottom trawling bans in English offshore marine protected areas at #UNOC2025 🌊 Many would be FULL bans across the WHOLE site!
If implemented this could protect 30,000km² of seabed 🪸That's DOUBLE the size of all England’s national parks put together! 🧵🔽
If implemented this could protect 30,000km² of seabed 🪸That's DOUBLE the size of all England’s national parks put together! 🧵🔽
June 8, 2025 at 8:50 AM
🚨 BREAKING: Govt is proposing bottom trawling bans in English offshore marine protected areas at #UNOC2025 🌊 Many would be FULL bans across the WHOLE site!
If implemented this could protect 30,000km² of seabed 🪸That's DOUBLE the size of all England’s national parks put together! 🧵🔽
If implemented this could protect 30,000km² of seabed 🪸That's DOUBLE the size of all England’s national parks put together! 🧵🔽
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🎉 HUGE NEWS: The EU Court has confirmed marine protected areas must be PROPERLY protected from bottom trawling! Countries must act to fulfil their legal duty to safeguard these areas from destruction. This is an absolute WIN for our ocean. 🙌 1/2
www.clientearth.org/latest/press...
www.clientearth.org/latest/press...
May 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🎉 HUGE NEWS: The EU Court has confirmed marine protected areas must be PROPERLY protected from bottom trawling! Countries must act to fulfil their legal duty to safeguard these areas from destruction. This is an absolute WIN for our ocean. 🙌 1/2
www.clientearth.org/latest/press...
www.clientearth.org/latest/press...
A brilliant WIN! Access to nature is vital and everyone should be able to have the thrill of sleeping out under the stars.
We won't protect what we don't know. Huge kudos to those who have campaigned on this issue.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
We won't protect what we don't know. Huge kudos to those who have campaigned on this issue.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Wild camping on Dartmoor is legal, supreme court rules
Case came to supreme court after court of appeal determined the term ‘open-air recreation’ included camping
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
A brilliant WIN! Access to nature is vital and everyone should be able to have the thrill of sleeping out under the stars.
We won't protect what we don't know. Huge kudos to those who have campaigned on this issue.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
We won't protect what we don't know. Huge kudos to those who have campaigned on this issue.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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❌ 20,000+ hours of suspected bottom trawling WRECKED UK marine protected areas last year. 🚫 It’s a scandal. A ban is CRITICAL.
Our Campaigns Director @alyxcampaigns.bsky.social explains why there’s hope, but only if we act now.
👉 Email govt to demand a ban: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...
Our Campaigns Director @alyxcampaigns.bsky.social explains why there’s hope, but only if we act now.
👉 Email govt to demand a ban: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...
May 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
❌ 20,000+ hours of suspected bottom trawling WRECKED UK marine protected areas last year. 🚫 It’s a scandal. A ban is CRITICAL.
Our Campaigns Director @alyxcampaigns.bsky.social explains why there’s hope, but only if we act now.
👉 Email govt to demand a ban: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...
Our Campaigns Director @alyxcampaigns.bsky.social explains why there’s hope, but only if we act now.
👉 Email govt to demand a ban: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...
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❌ Promise made. Promise broken?
The UK Environment Secretary, Steve Reed, VOWED to end bottom trawling.
A year on, and we are STILL waiting. 3/4 🔽
The UK Environment Secretary, Steve Reed, VOWED to end bottom trawling.
A year on, and we are STILL waiting. 3/4 🔽
May 20, 2025 at 7:36 AM
❌ Promise made. Promise broken?
The UK Environment Secretary, Steve Reed, VOWED to end bottom trawling.
A year on, and we are STILL waiting. 3/4 🔽
The UK Environment Secretary, Steve Reed, VOWED to end bottom trawling.
A year on, and we are STILL waiting. 3/4 🔽
After David Attenborough's heartbreaking documentary we ran the numbers on bottom-trawl fishing in UK marine 'protected' areas. It's not good 👇
🚨 BREAKING: 20,000+ HOURS of suspected bottom trawling WRECKED the UK’s offshore marine “protected” areas last year, our research shows! 🌊 That would score tracks on the seabed that would stretch EIGHT TIMES around the UK. All with the government's permission! 1/4 🔽
www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
UK's marine protected areas face over 20,000 hours of bottom trawling
Bottom trawling is a fishing method where large, weighted nets are dragged across the seafloor by one or two boats to catch fish and other marine life that live on or near the bottom.
www.express.co.uk
May 20, 2025 at 7:51 AM
After David Attenborough's heartbreaking documentary we ran the numbers on bottom-trawl fishing in UK marine 'protected' areas. It's not good 👇
This is heartbreaking and enraging but also hugely motiviating. We need to ACT on bottom trawling in marine protected areas NOW.
Here's how you can do that: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...
Here's how you can do that: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...
🚨 EXPOSED: Unseen footage reveals the DEVASTATING impact of bottom-trawl fishing. David Attenborough’s new film #OCEAN is a call to arms to end this heartbreaking destruction of our marine protected areas. Will you heed his call?
WATCH 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzG9... 1/2 🔽
WATCH 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzG9... 1/2 🔽
OCEAN WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH | BOTTOM TRAWLING OFFICIAL CLIP | IN CINEMAS NOW | Altitude Films
YouTube video by Altitude Films
www.youtube.com
May 9, 2025 at 9:49 AM
This is heartbreaking and enraging but also hugely motiviating. We need to ACT on bottom trawling in marine protected areas NOW.
Here's how you can do that: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...
Here's how you can do that: act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...
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🚨 BREAKING: The UK's sandeel ban will stay in place in a VICTORY for the ocean & science! 🌊🎉
🐟 #Sandeels are vital food for puffins, porpoises & cod. Although the EU won its challenge to the ban on paper, the court confirms it was backed by science & is VITAL to healthy seas. 1/2 ⏬
🐟 #Sandeels are vital food for puffins, porpoises & cod. Although the EU won its challenge to the ban on paper, the court confirms it was backed by science & is VITAL to healthy seas. 1/2 ⏬
May 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
🚨 BREAKING: The UK's sandeel ban will stay in place in a VICTORY for the ocean & science! 🌊🎉
🐟 #Sandeels are vital food for puffins, porpoises & cod. Although the EU won its challenge to the ban on paper, the court confirms it was backed by science & is VITAL to healthy seas. 1/2 ⏬
🐟 #Sandeels are vital food for puffins, porpoises & cod. Although the EU won its challenge to the ban on paper, the court confirms it was backed by science & is VITAL to healthy seas. 1/2 ⏬
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🚨🚨 Mackerel on the brink!
Years of #overfishing, by the UK & others, mean it’s no longer a sustainable choice, says the Good Fish Guide. 🐟❌
We need science-backed catch limits NOW, not when it’s too late. 1/2
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Years of #overfishing, by the UK & others, mean it’s no longer a sustainable choice, says the Good Fish Guide. 🐟❌
We need science-backed catch limits NOW, not when it’s too late. 1/2
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Mackerel stocks near breaking point because of overfishing, say experts
Northeast Atlantic mackerel populations depleted, and Good Fish Guide says shoppers should look for other options
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
🚨🚨 Mackerel on the brink!
Years of #overfishing, by the UK & others, mean it’s no longer a sustainable choice, says the Good Fish Guide. 🐟❌
We need science-backed catch limits NOW, not when it’s too late. 1/2
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Years of #overfishing, by the UK & others, mean it’s no longer a sustainable choice, says the Good Fish Guide. 🐟❌
We need science-backed catch limits NOW, not when it’s too late. 1/2
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Hey @teamlabouruk.bsky.social you were very clear pre-election that you'd stop destructive bottom trawling ripping apart our marine havens.
Where's the action for our ocean?
Where's the action for our ocean?
🌊 We haven't forgotten that before the election, Labour promised to end the destruction of bottom-trawl fishing. And clearly neither has @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social.
So, where is the action to protect our #ocean havens? Where's the #bottomtrawling public consultation we were promised? ⌛️🪸
So, where is the action to protect our #ocean havens? Where's the #bottomtrawling public consultation we were promised? ⌛️🪸
April 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Hey @teamlabouruk.bsky.social you were very clear pre-election that you'd stop destructive bottom trawling ripping apart our marine havens.
Where's the action for our ocean?
Where's the action for our ocean?
'Let's find peace' is a bonobo phrase using meaning more than the sum of its parts.
Be more bonobo
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Be more bonobo
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Bonobos may combine words in ways previously thought unique to humans
Phrases used to smooth over tense social situations have meanings beyond the sum of their parts, study suggests
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:41 AM
'Let's find peace' is a bonobo phrase using meaning more than the sum of its parts.
Be more bonobo
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Be more bonobo
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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During the presidential campaign, I wrote an op-ed about how Trump’s proposed policies would be bad for ocean science and conservation, and senior members of my field told me I was being unprofessional.
Thinking about them as I read a news story called “the darkest day in scientific history.”
Thinking about them as I read a news story called “the darkest day in scientific history.”
April 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
During the presidential campaign, I wrote an op-ed about how Trump’s proposed policies would be bad for ocean science and conservation, and senior members of my field told me I was being unprofessional.
Thinking about them as I read a news story called “the darkest day in scientific history.”
Thinking about them as I read a news story called “the darkest day in scientific history.”