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Rosie Frost

‘A systemic problem’: Legal action targets EU’s failure to stop bottom trawling in protected areas

EU leaders are facing a fresh legal complaint over widespread destructive fishing practices like bottom trawling in marine protected areas (MPAs).

The lawyers behind it say that continuing to permit this activity goes against the bloc’s core nature laws and puts the ocean and people in grave danger. 

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