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It's all well and good to be trawling up these wonderful artifacts but the act of doing so is destroying the real evidence, the settlements and landscapes. The same applies to gravel extraction.
What struck me as being a little sad was how there was a concentration of artifacts in one area implying a settlement yet no one had said to the trawler skippers, "keep out of that area, let's try and preserve whats left".
Yes, that rather struck me as well.

Haven't read it in detail but I think the 1992 Act extends EH's powers to schedule monuments to all monuments within territorial waters. http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2002/20020014.htm#1

All in theory of course, the practicalities preclude it and enforcing anything would be a nightmare.