Brussels, 20/08/2003 (Agence Europe) - At a request from the United Kingdom, the European Commission has decided to ban trawling in the "Darwin Mounds" zone some 180 km off the north-west coast of Scotland. "The measure aims to protect cold water corals of exceptional value considered as directly threatened by trawling", the Commission explains. This emergency measure is to be applied immediately. The European Commission announces that it will soon present a proposal of regulation to the...