Illegal driftnet fishing returns to Morocco

Small-scale vessels are illegally catching swordfish in the Gibraltar Strait using driftnets. Photo: Oceana Europe

Marine conservation organisation, Oceana, has revealed that illegal driftnet fishing has returned to Tangiers, Morocco, despite it being phased out in 2010.

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