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An argument has been brewing for weeks between France and the UK over new post-Brexit fishing rules. Last month, the UK banned bottom trawling in part of its protected waters. The move is aimed at protecting vulnerable marine habitats as this fishing practice uses heavy nets dragged along the bottom that damage the seafloor. But French fishermen say it threatens their livelihoods and some who depend heavily on these waters claim they are being unfairly targeted. What is the basis of the bottom trawling dispute?The British government announced that the harmful practice was prohibited in certain...
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Bottom trawling is rife in marine protected areas across the UK and EU. Allowing this is endangering our ocean, our climate and our coastal communities. The damage caused by trawling and dredging in marine protected areas (MPAs) should not be underestimated. Weighted nets scour and scar the seabed, destroying habitat — especially the refuges of young wildlife — and uprooting the foundations of ocean ecosystems. This industrial extraction is also indiscriminate, and levels of untargeted bycatch are among the highest of any form of fishing. Over 400 million tonnes of untargeted marine life have ...
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Greece will ban bottom trawling in all of its marine protected areas (MPAs) by 2030, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced today. Speaking at the Our Ocean Conference in Athens, he said the country would become the first to bring an end to the damaging fishing practice in these protected areas. It will be banned in Greece’s three national marine parks - one of which is the largest in the East Mediterranean Sea - by 2026 with the rest following before the end of the decade. Bottom trawling involves dragging heavy fishing nets across the ocean floor, which can destroy habitats and e...
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By Austin Landis NUEVA VENECIA, Colombia — Sandra Milena Manjarez puts two plates of bright yellow rice topped with liza — a finger-sized mullet fish similar to a sardine — on the white plastic table on her porch. In Nueva Venecia, where homes sit on stilts in the middle of an expansive lagoon in the northern department of Magdalena, everyone subsists on fish, mainly mullet, catfish, tilapia and tarpon. “There’s no other work here,” Manjarez told Mongabay. “What we’ve always lived on is fishing.” The Ciénaga Grande of Santa Marta, or the “great swamp,” is a 428,000-hectare (1.06 million- acre)...
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Biologists have been keeping tabs on a remote Lake Superior island's fragile wolf population every winter since 1958. But they had to cut this season's planned seven-week survey short after just a fortnight. The ski plane the Michigan Tech University researchers study the wolves from uses the frozen lake as a landing strip because there's nowhere to touch down on the island. But this weirdly warm winter left the Great Lakes nearly devoid of ice. As climate change accelerates, scientists are scrambling to understand how iceless winters could affect the world's largest freshwater system. Most of...
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China is stepping up patrols in the waters off the coast of Taiwan’s Kinmen archipelago, days after two of its fishermen drowned while being chased by the Taiwanese coast guard, which accused the boat of trespassing. The Chinese coast guard's Fujian division will regularly monitor the waters off the southern coast of the city of Xiamen — a few kilometres from Kinmen — to strengthen maritime law enforcement, said the coast guard's spokesman, Gan Yu, in a statement on Sunday. Fishermen from Taiwan and China regularly sail that stretch of water which has seen a rise in tensions as the number of C...
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By Maxwell Radwin MEXICO CITY — The trafficking of valuable fish bladders found in Mexico appears to be on the rise online and on social media, and it’s having a ripple effect on other endangered species in the region. Dried swim bladders, or “maw,” of totoaba, an endangered fish found in the Gulf of California in northern Mexico, are being increasingly trafficked on digital platforms, according to a report from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), an environmental NGO. The demand for totoaba has impacted other animals that get caught in the same gillnets, most notably vaquitas, the s...
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By Maxwell Radwin Ecuador’s new free trade agreement with China is getting backlash from critics worried about public health risks and potential damage to the environment. The agreement, which was signed last May but still needs approval in Ecuador’s National Assembly, has come under fire for policies that could overwhelm the country’s waste disposal systems, increase deforestation and let polluting companies off the hook, among other issues. “This is one of the smallest economies in South America starting to negotiate with the largest economy in the world,” said Diana Castro, a researcher wit...
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France has introduced a temporary ban on nearly all commercial fishing in the Bay of Biscay in an effort to protect dolphins. It will last a month, beginning on 22 January and continuing until 20 February. The measure applies to both French and foreign fishing companies. It comes after estimates found thousands of dolphins die in the bay each year, due to getting accidentally snarled up in fishing gear. Local fishermen have lambasted the ban as “absurd” and say it puts their livelihoods at risk. France bans fishing to protect dolphinsThe month-long ban will impact fishing grounds off France’s ...
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Boynton Beach (United States) (AFP) - The goliath grouper, a colossus of a fish that can weigh up to 360 kilograms (nearly 800 pounds), is the delight of divers in Florida, though scientists warn their numbers are down since the US state allowed fishing of the giants to resume. "There's nowhere else you can have an experience with a fish that big while you're diving -- and being this close to it," Dr. James Locascio, a marine biologist with the Mote Marine Laboratory, told AFP. "And so, really, we feel that the fish is worth a lot more alive than it is dead." During a sea trip early this mont...
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