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Over 2.5 million hours of sea bottom trawling ploughed Europe’s ‘protected’ areas in 2020

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EU Reporter

Publication Date
2021-09-03

As the global nature conservation community gathers in Marseille for the IUCN World Conservation Congress, at which marine protection targets will be discussed, Oceana releases new data revealing how EU countries continue to allow destructive fishing in Europe’s supposedly ‘protected’ areas and calls on European leaders to ban the widespread and destructive practice of bottom trawling.

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https://www.eureporter.co/politics/maritime/2021/09/03/over-2-5-million-hours-of-sea-bottom-trawling-ploughed-europes-protected-areas-in-2020/