On Thursday 18 January in Strasbourg, MEPs criticised the European Commission’s plan to ban bottom trawling in marine protected areas.
In adopting (402 votes in favour, 95 against and 57 abstentions) the report by Niclas Herbst (EPP, German) analysing the European Commission’s action plan on marine ecosystems, the European Parliament considers that the Commission had adopted an overly simplistic approach in proposing the gradual elimination of mobile bottom fishing in all marine...