{"id":137352,"date":"2025-02-12T07:57:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T05:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/ngos-launch-legal-case-against-french-government-over-bottom-trawling-protected-areas\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T07:57:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T05:57:44","slug":"ngos-launch-legal-case-against-french-government-over-bottom-trawling-protected-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/ngos-launch-legal-case-against-french-government-over-bottom-trawling-protected-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"NGOs launch legal case against French government over bottom trawling protected areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137352\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>The French government is being taken to court to end destructive fishing practices in marine protected areas. The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) and D\u00e9fense des Milieux Aquatiques (DMA) have launched legal action against France for not banning bottom trawling in Natura 2000 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). The NGOs are taking the case to the country\u2019s highest court &#8211; the Conseil d&#8217;Etat &#8211; over what they say is the government\u2019s failure to comply with its obligation to protect the marine environment from damage caused by this destructive fishing practice.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom trawling is a destructive fishing method which involves dragging weighted nets across the sea floor. It can kill animals and plants, disrupt seabed ecosystems and release carbon from disrupted sediment. Several EU member states have already launched plans to phase it out. Greece was the first to announce a ban on bottom trawling in all of its MPAs by 2030 and its three national marine parks by 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The case focuses on two MPAs &#8211; Bancs des Flandres and Chausey &#8211; both located in the English Channel. These Natura 2000 Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) are designated due to their unique sandbanks and maerl beds (a type of algae that grows on the sea floor) which act as crucial nurseries for marine life. Open-source satellite data shows that an average of 83 vessels using bottom trawl or demersal seine (another destructive fishing practice) gear operated annually within Bancs des Flandres between 2022 and 2024, according to the NGOs. Collectively they say these vessels logged more than 6,800 hours of fishing a year.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2025\/02\/11\/ngos-launch-legal-case-against-french-government-over-bottom-trawling-protected-areas\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/4-666\/\">NGOs launch legal case against French government over bottom trawling protected areas<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[17844,575,561,4322],"class_list":["post-137352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bottom-trawling","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-france","tag-ngo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}