LEAK: EU biodiversity plan aims to ban bottom trawling in protected areas

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  1. Good. The helped kill the med and yet still shipped these practices to north sea – lack of enforcement is the main problem now. By 2030 – that is stupid.

  2. This is long over-due.

    Most of the life at sea is at the bottom of it. Tearing it up like farmland hurts everything in it. Smaller animals and plants alike.

    We really should look into fish farms into a larger degree.

  3. The EU should advocate for a worldwide ban on trawling. It’s one of the most destructive forms of fishing in an industry where things vary from “well, that’s really bad” to “oh my god, what the actual fuck?”.

    The fishing industry, worldwide, needs to be massively reformed, regulated and controlled, before we empty our seas.

  4. The EU has its warts. But out of all the global powers it’s been the best by far for climate and biodiversity action.

  5. Great. At the same time, no one wants to stop the destruction of the Danube Delta biosphere from transport ships transferring Ukrainian goods to Romanian Danube ports.

    What a hypocrisy

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