While France is preparing to host the third United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice in June 2025, environmental NGOs Bloom and ClientEarth announced on Tuesday, 28 May, that they were bringing the French government before the Court of Justice of the EU in an effort to get the French government to ban bottom trawling in marine protected areas in the Mediterranean.
In 2006, the European Union adopted a regulation aiming to ban fishing methods that are likely to damage marine habitats....