EU Limits Destructive Fishing Methods in over 500,000 Square Miles of Ocean - Oceana

Victory | September 30, 2005

EU Limits Destructive Fishing Methods in over 500,000 Square Miles of Ocean

After two years of intensive lobbying by Oceana staff in Brussels and Madrid, the European Union prohibited destructive fishing practices, including bottom trawling, in over 500,000 square miles around the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands.