02/12/2021 (Agence Europe) – A report published by the NGO Oceana on Thursday, 2 December, reveals that trawling in Spain’s marine protected areas (MPAs) is very widespread, “which has a significant impact on the theoretically protected seabed”. The organisation analysed “apparent” trawling activity in 2020 in 218 MPAs in the Natura 2000 network. A total of 73,100 hours of trawling took place in 45 MPAs, including areas officially designated as such in 2015 whose...