Bottom trawling will not be phased out

Greenpeace has criticised the vote as inadequate protect fragile deep-sea ecosystems from the destructive impacts of bottom trawling and deep-sea gillnetting. © Greenpeace

The European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee has voted to ban bottom trawling in areas of the North East Atlantic with vulnerable marine ecosystems, but not to phase out bottom trawling altogether.

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