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Tag: bottom sea trawling

  • Monday, June 16th 2025 - 10:50 UTC

    Great triumph for David Attenborough and his Ocean film: end of bottom trawling??

    Sir David Attenborough and King Charles at the United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC-3) in the French city of Nice

    At the age of 99, the documentary film-maker David Attenborough has achieved his greatest triumph. With a single film clip, he has signed the death warrant for one of the world’s most destructive industries: bottom trawling. The companies and countries that do it will go down fighting and it will take time, but they will go down.

  • Monday, June 9th 2025 - 09:12 UTC

    UK Government wants to end bottom trawling to protect MPAs sea beds; 12 weeks consultation

    A consultation will invite marine and fisheries stakeholders to share their views and evidence on the prohibition of destructive bottom-towed fishing gear (Pic Greenpeace)

    Bottom trawling – a fishing method that involves dragging large nets along the sea floor – could be banned across more vulnerable areas of English seas. The government is committed to protecting UK oceans and has outlined plans to ban the destructive practice in more Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). The measures would help protect rare marine animals, as well as the delicate sea-beds on which they rely, from indiscriminate and potentially irreversible damage.

  • Monday, December 18th 2017 - 13:12 UTC

    Chile bans bottom sea trawling in 98% of its EEZ to protect marine environment

    The fishing footprint was determined on the historical operation of the fleet of both fisheries, common hake and demersal crustaceans - in a period of 15 and 16 years. Photo: Brian Skerry

    Chile's Under secretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture, SUBPESCA, and Oceana Chile jointly announced the freezing of the fishing footprint for the common hake and demersal crustacean fisheries. This means that 98% of Chile's exclusive economic zone, EEZ, will be protected from bottom trawling.