The EU has some of the world’s strongest nature laws, but they are routinely ignored: many of its marine protected areas still allow exceptionally destructive fishing. A new coalition of environmental organisations is launching to ensure those laws are finally enforced.
This comes one year after environmental organisations filed landmark legal complaints against six EU Member States for allowing destructive fishing inside marine protected areas, and on which the European Commission has yet to take action…
Source: Seas At Risk | Press Releases
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