Sentences with phrase «sea bottom trawling»

A tireless defender of the oceans and marine life, Claire Nouvian led a focused, data - driven advocacy campaign against the destructive fishing practice of deep - sea bottom trawling, successfully pressuring French supermarket giant and fleet owner Intermarché to change its fishing practices.

Still, France remained one of the only EU member countries opposed to any regulation of deep - sea bottom trawling, so Nouvian launched a new media campaign pressuring the French government to change its position.

The piece was shared widely and helped garner 900,000 signatures for BLOOM's petition asking the French government to support a ban on deep - sea bottom trawling.

As the main powerhouse behind the French fishing lobby, convincing Intermarché to change its fishing practices was a crucial first step to securing a ban on deep - sea bottom trawling in France.

Her coalition of advocates ultimately secured French support for a ban on deep - sea bottom trawling that led to an EU - wide ban.

x A tireless defender of the oceans and marine life, Claire Nouvian led a focused, data - driven advocacy campaign against the destructive fishing practice of deep - sea bottom trawling.

In November 2015, France — in response to overwhelming public pressure — finally agreed to a ban on deep - sea bottom trawling below a depth of 2,600 feet (800 meters).

A tireless defender of the oceans and marine life, Claire Nouvian led a focused, data - driven advocacy campaign against the destructive fishing practice of deep - sea bottom trawling.

Posing the greatest direct, imminent, physical threat are fishing practices (the most destructive being deep - sea bottom trawling) and deep seabed mining.

Several nations have already taken steps to restrict deep - sea bottom trawling, and Palau has banned it, but the commission is the first large fishing community to propose a ban.

Not exact matches

The effect of bottom trawling is «devastating» for archaeologists, agrees Robert Ballard, an oceanographer based at the University of Rhode Island in Narragansett, who has pioneered deep - sea exploration and discovered the wreck of the Titanic in 1985.

Plus, other work has found that the deepest - sea dwellers are among the longest - lived and slowest to recover from the effects of bottom trawling.

Advances in bottom - trawling technology have given commercial fishing boats access to the sea floor where unknown species have been making a living for eons

Bottom trawling and gillnetting are nonselective methods that catch 20 % to 40 % of unwanted fish, including vulnerable deep - sea species with long lifespans and slow reproduction rates.

During a trawl for sea creatures on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean last month, scientists on the RV Helmer Hansson in Rijpfjorden on the island of Spitsbergen, Norway, retrieved a 7 - meter - long log infested with living shipworms on the sea floor under 250 meters of water.

Hundreds of studies on bottom trawl impacts, including those on soft sediment habitats, have shown that trawling can remove or damage structure - forming organisms, alter the composition of communities living in the sea bed (infauna) and reduce their productivity.

«This action is a complete turning point in potential protection of deep - sea bottom communities,» says marine biologist Les Watling of the University of Hawaii, Honolulu: «One can hope that this will lead to a global ban of bottom trawling in the deep sea, but I can't say I am optimistic on that point.

The proposal would phase out licenses for deep - sea trawling 2 years after the regulation is approved, require strict quotas for deep - sea species that lack solid scientific data on the size of populations, and require impact assessments for opening new areas to deep - sea bottom fishing.

Brussels — Greenpeace has criticised the outcome of today's vote in the European Parliament on deep - sea fishing as inadequate to protect fragile deep - sea ecosystems from the destructive impacts of bottom trawling and deep - sea gillnetting.

The DSCC was founded in 2004, to address the issue of bottom trawling on the high seas in the absence of an effective governance regime.

And while human impacts on deep sea corals are different from shallow corals, they can be equally devastating — especially in the form of destructive fishing practices such as bottom trawling.

From stopping bottom trawling in sensitive habitat areas to protecting sea turtles from commercial fishing gear, our victories represent a new hope for the world's oceans.

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