LEAK: EU biodiversity plan aims to ban bottom trawling in protected areas – Euractiv

EU countries will be required to reduce the harmful impacts of fishing on sensitive species and their habitats, under a draft EU biodiversity plan seen by EURACTIV.

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European coastal monitoring programmes may fail to identify impacts on benthic macrofauna caused by bottom trawling - ScienceDirect

Threat reduction score of marine protected areas (MPAs) for all threats

Challenges to the EU's Normativity in Multileveled Coercive Action

A Path to Creating the First Generation of High Seas Protected Areas

Leaked EU marine biodiversity plan 'would allow continued destruction of protected areas until 2030' - edie

The distribution of Natura 2000 sites in the Aegean Sea and their

European environmental organisations call for a ban on destructive fishing practices in Marine Protected Areas - Oceana Europe

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EU Biodiversity Strategy - EUROPARC Federation

Oceana calls for urgent action by UK Government to end bottom trawling in Britain's Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) - Oceana Europe

As EU celebrates 30 years of Natura 2000, NGOs call for these areas to be actually 'protected' and for an EU-wide trawl ban in them - Oceana Europe

30x30: From Global Ocean Treaty to Protection at Sea - full report (English) by Greenpeace International - Issuu