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Europe faces public demand to ‘protect ocean from trawling’

February 06, 2025

A consortium of ocean advocates, including Blue Marine Foundation and Oceana have launched Protect Our Catch, a campaign calling on European leaders to enhance and enforce regulation behind their marine protected areas and ban bottom trawling from protected areas for good.

European leaders are facing growing pressure from campaigners and ocean advocates to strengthen regulation and the enforcement of protections afforded to many of their marine protected areas by banning destructive fishing practices such as bottom trawling within their waters for good.

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