A net is hauled to the surface after being dragged along the seabed. The large amount of bycatch involved in âbottom trawlingâ harms biodiversity.
Photograph: Colin Munro/Alamy
A coalition of NGOs is calling for an urgent ban on destructive bottom trawling in EU marine protected areas, after the failure of member states to defend seas.
The ban is part of a 10-point action plan to âraise the barâ to achieve biodiversity targets, which they say will not be met by current promises, such as last yearâs high-profile pledge by world leaders at the UN summit on biodiversity in New York to reverse nature loss by 2030.