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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10654
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SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) fisheries

Delay on plans to end bottom trawling

Brussels, 12/07/2012 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has postponed the adoption, initially planned for this Friday, 13 July, of the proposal to phase out bottom trawling in the North-East Atlantic. Bottom trawling is a fishing technique which causes severe damage to marine ecosystems and to the deep-water species, such as black scabbardfish, blue ling, roundnose grenadier and some species of shark. Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki has not been able to persuade some of her...

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