A lot of this is happening in Marine Protected Areas which makes a mockery of protecting the ocean
In UK between 2020 and 2024, 1.3 million tonnes of fish were caught inside the country’s MPAs, 250,000 tonnes of which by bottom-towed gear.
@ecowarriorss.bsky.socialEU tax payers pay €1.17 billion every year for industrial trawlers to obliterate marine life
dragging heavy nets fitted with metal chains – some as large as 12 Boeing 747s – along the seabed, indiscriminately scooping up marine life as they go.
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‘Economic failure’: Bottom trawling costs EU taxpayers €16bn a year
Türkiye’s Gökova Bay shows what happens when bottom trawling is banned. What can other European countries learn?
