According to a report published on 9 December by the European Environment Agency, most of Europe’s marine area (93%) is under multiple pressures from human activities on land and at sea and there is hardly any part of the area that is not affected by at least two of these pressures.
The EEA states that, to be sustainable, human activities at sea and on land need to be decoupled from the degradation of marine ecosystems.
According to the report titled ‘Multiple pressures and their...