DESTRUCTIVE TRAWLING IS THE PRACTICE OF FISHING BY DRAGGING HUGE NETS ACROSS THE OCEAN FLOOR. It is the greatest human threat to ancient deep-sea coral communities. Left unchecked, destructive trawling threatens the survival of countless ocean ecosystems. Oceana is campaigning to stop destructive trawling in Europe and in the Deep Ocean around the world.
European trawlers are destroying the oceans
Among its almost 100,000 fishing vessels, the EU is home to a particularly damaging fleet: the 15,000 trawlers that operate in European waters, which are overexploiting marine resources and irreversibly damaging some of the most productive and biodiverse ecosystems on the planet... MORE>>>
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