We’re fighting for the future of Europe’s fisheries and coastal communities.
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🚨#ProtectOurCatch partner action!🚨
Partners @ejfoundation and @DMA_ONG are taking the French government to court to ensure marine protected areas (MPAs) are truly protected from destructive fishing.
Over the last five years alone, bottom trawlers have conducted up to 1,000,000 hours of activity in French MPAs. That’s one million hours of destruction in areas that should be safe havens for marine life. Many MPAs in France still allow bottom trawlers to scrape seabeds, destroy ecosystems, and threaten the sustainability of Europe’s fisheries. From public mobilisation to legal challenges, we’re holding decision–makers accountable to safeguard our ocean for future generations.
Learn more: euronews.com/green/2025/02/1…
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European leaders face growing pressure to strengthen regulations & enforce the protection of MPAs by banning destructive fishing practices (e.g. bottom trawling) within their waters.
Despite the case against it, bottom trawling continues across the ocean
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Bottom trawling is a destructive fishing method that involves dragging weighted nets across the seabed.
In France, it is still carried out in 77% of marine Natura 2000 sites. Over the last five years, about 200,000 hours of trawling were recorded each year in French MPAs.
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🚢New campaign urges European leaders to ban bottom trawling in MPAs.
Letters sent to French president and EU Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans
📍Read more from OCF about this here: cmscoms.com/?p=43034
A new EU report outlines four possible futures for 2050 — from thriving oceans and sustainable practices to devastating collapse driven by climate change and failed policies.
The worst-case scenarios are closer than we think, driven by destructive fishing practices and a lopsided subsidy system that favors industrial fleets over low-impact fishers and communities — but we can take action before it's too late.
Demand an end to bottom trawling in Europe’s MPAs at on.only.one/bottom-trawling-…
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Over 2 years in the making, #CoastalTestimonies showcases the diverse perspectives of over 50 stakeholders across Scotland’s coast. These testimonies speak to long-standing and unresolved injustices in how #OurSeas are managed and breadth of support for change.
Responding to a @EU_Commission report on the future of Europe's fisheries, a new editorial details how the next five years are crucial to securing them: destructive fishing practices like bottom trawling accelerate Europe’s fisheries crisis, leaving marine ecosystems scarred and coastal communities struggling. And the solutions are clear:
✔️ Enforce true protection of marine protected areas by banning bottom trawling within their boundaries.
✔️ Prioritize the livelihoods of small-scale fishers.
✔️ Redirect subsidies to support low-impact, sustainable fisheries.
The future of Europe's seas — and those around the world — depends on policymakers taking urgent, meaningful action.
Add your name to the link in our bio to ban destructive fishing in Europe’s MPAs. on.only.one/bottom-trawling-…
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Pro-surfer takes an underwater stand for Scotland’s seas!
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Please support the @OurSeas_Scot coalition campaign to protect our seas and #BringBacktheFish
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In evidence to @SP_RuralAffairs on delay to fisheries management plans @MairiGougeon says there is already “a strong suite of measures in place”
We would argue that's not the case - the Post-Brexit UK Fisheries Act requires the achievement of a set of objectives which include sustainability, national benefit, recording of bycatches, etc - the delay means these may not even start to happen until 2027.
Can the recovery of our seas really wait?
Watch the full session here: scottishparliament.tv/meetin…
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Bottom trawling is a destructive fishing practice harmful not only to marine life, but also artisanal fishers and communities. That made it a major win last year, when Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the law that bans trawling along the 12 miles of the coast of Rio Grande do Sul!
Learn more with the trailer for @OceanaBrasil's unprecedented documentary "12 Miles — A Fight Against Trawling.”
And catch the full documentary here: bit.ly/48ZIuE3
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Bottom trawling is the world's most destructive fishing method, regularly impacting 50% of EU waters.
Sign the petition & join the call to #EndBottomTrawling in #MarineProtectedAreas across Europe!
✍️action.wemove.eu/sign/2023-0…
@CostasKadis @JessikaRoswall @patagoniaeurope
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Small-scale fishers provide over 66% of the fish consumed worldwide.
Helping them adopt sustainable fishing practices improves their livelihoods and protects our oceans.
#COP29
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#Ocean
Bottom trawling bycatch
How it’s going (sound on) and how it will end.
Plunder
Plunder
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Gone
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Since we highlighted the environmental impacts of scampi, Whitby Seafoods has paid for glossy videos that continue to mislead consumers.
The company Whitby Seafoods - one of the biggest producers of scampi - claims that bottom-trawling doesn’t actually touch the seabed. Judge for yourself…
If you are concerned about supermarkets selling scampi as #responsiblysourced please support our campaign at: bit.ly/say-no-to-scampi
Fact: Bottom trawling is the most destructive fishing technique.
Fact: 90% of the most bottom-trawled seas in the world are in Europe.
Fact: The EU is allowing this practice to take place in “protected waters.”
Fact: We can help end this marine decimation.
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Add your name to the appeal to tell the EU to ban trawling in all marine protected areas: on.only.one/bottom-trawling-…
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An often-overlooked threat on the ocean floor is bottom trawling—dragging nets across the seabed, harming marine life, damaging ecosystems, and threatening the climate.
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The EU is one of the worst offenders. Europe is quietly allowing this destruction to take place in its “protected areas.” We’re asking you to stand with us and demand that the EU ban bottom trawling in its protected areas before it’s too late: on.only.one/bottom-trawling-…
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