US Edition‘We Must Stop Bulldozing Our Seabeds’: Call for Restrictions on Bottom Trawling
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Andrew Rosindell: When it comes to marine protection, Labour's lost at sea
Andrew Rosindell has been Member of Parliament for Romford since 2001. David Attenborough’s latest documentary, Ocean, lays bare the destruction that bottom trawling, the practice of dragging fishing nets along the seabed, can wreak on marine ecosystems. It evokes a visceral reaction amongst the public, many of whom simply will not understand why this is allowed to happen in so-called marine protected areas (MPAs), especially those for which the…
The NGO wants to see justice "lead the French state to take concrete measures to remedy and put an end to the ecological damage" caused by this practice.
Senedd member calls for restrictions on bottom trawling to protect Wales’ seabeds
A Senedd member called for restrictions on bottom trawling to protect Wales’ seabeds as she criticised the current “rudderless” marine protection policy. Janet Finch-Saunders said she could hardly imagine a more wasteful way of catching fish than bottom trawling, which involves dragging heavy nets across the sea floor. The Conservatives’ shadow climate secretary told the […]
Paris, 9 Jul (EFEverde).- The environmental organization Bloom has presented on Wednesday a formal legal request to the French State to prohibit bottom trawling in its waters, a practice that the NGO considers highly destructive to marine ecosystems and biodiversity. The association has submitted an administrative appeal to the Ministry of Ecological Transition, responsible for maritime policy, in which it demands the immediate adoption of measu…
While environmentalists alert to the risk to marine ecosystems, Galician shipowners warn of the economic impact of these bans, defending the need to ensure the viability of the fleet. For their part, the EU remains committed to conservation, backed by recent court rulings, although it recognizes that it is considering formulas to compensate the sectors most affected.
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