‘The most damaging thing for the sea’ … and 300 trawlers are at it in Europe

More than 300 trawlers have been tracked fishing in some of the most vulnerable marine areas in European waters, where destructive bottom trawling is banned. There are hundreds of marine protected areas worldwide, but the practice is not banned in most of them. Jonny Hughes, senior policy manager at the Blue Marine Foundation charity, said: “Bottom fishing is the most damaging thing that happens at sea, particularly coupled with overexploitation. You’ve got too many fish being caught in a way that has the biggest possible side-effects.”

Read The Observer article here.