date:Dec 11, 2013
the trawling ban irked some groups, including Greenpeace.
The European Parliament's approach to deep-sea fishing is at best half-hearted. It failed to ban the devastating and indiscriminate practice of bottom trawling, said Justine Maillot, Greenpeace's E.U. fisheries policy adviser. It is astonishing that subsidized fishing vessels can continue to plough the seafloor with monster nets that crush everything in their path.
The parliament also voted to approve a fisheries agreement between the E