EU stakeholders discuss future of bottom trawling

One month after the publication of the European Commission’s ‘Action Plan: Protecting and restoring marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries’, fishing industry leaders and EU member state representatives have met in Brussels to jointly analyse the nature, impact and consequences of the new initiative.The meeting reported that all parties agreed on the need to protect vulnerable marine ecosystems as well as sustainable fisheries and considered a different approach than that of the Commission to achieve this goal.