The area is supposed to be protected for wildlife but often there are “wet wipes and plastic pollution entangled in algae and all over the rocks”, said Lewis Stagnetto, of the Nautilus Project, a local environmental charity.

Raw sewage pollution can trigger toxic algal blooms that strip oxygen from the water, choking aquatic life. It exposes fish and mammals to a cocktail of chemicals and plastics that can disrupt reproduction and damage health, and puts people at risk by spreading pathogens and antibiotic-resistant genes.

I believe any person or country incurs an inescapable debt they must pay back when environmental damage is done by unnecessary environmental harm that is reasonably preventable, no matter where on earth that impact happens.

The losses to the productivity of fisheries and related industries is huge and things like this place entire ecosystems that sustain landscapes under threat.