Environmental charity Greenpeace has been cleared of environmental breaches, after dropping boulders into the sea off the Sussex coast.
It happened 28 miles off the coast of Brighton in February 2021 as a protest against bottom trawling.
Earlier the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) decided not to proceed with prosecuting the group.
The MMO said that it would investigate if any unlicensed activity occurred in the future.
The Offshore Brighton area is designated as a Marine Conservation Zone, Greenpeace dropped 20 granite boulders in the area, despite warnings from the MMO that it was not licensed to do so.
Greenpeace said it had “installed natural rock protection” to protect it from bottom trawling which “ploughs the seabed, destroying marine habitats”.
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