Blue Ventures joins a collaboration of world-leading fisheries scientists and ocean experts in calling for constructive pathways forward to tackle the impacts of bottom trawling,
Over 99 percent of bottom trawling worldwide occurs inside the Exclusive Economic Zones of coastal nations posing risks to critical habitats and small-scale, artisanal fishers,
Bottom trawling is a common way of catching fish that involves dragging heavy nets across the seabed. Around a quarter of the world’s seafood is
The highly destructive fishing method will be banned in a new exclusion zone stretching from the water’s edge to two nautical miles offshore.
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