{"id":137261,"date":"2025-02-06T07:57:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T05:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/ngos-and-fishermen-call-for-urgent-action-to-end-bottom-trawling-in-marine-protected-areas\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T07:57:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T05:57:28","slug":"ngos-and-fishermen-call-for-urgent-action-to-end-bottom-trawling-in-marine-protected-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/ngos-and-fishermen-call-for-urgent-action-to-end-bottom-trawling-in-marine-protected-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"NGOs and fishermen call for urgent action to end bottom trawling in marine 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\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\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=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137261\" \/>\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    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/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>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>There is growing public support for marine protection across Europe as 73 per cent of people support a ban on bottom trawling. French President Emmanuel Macron and EU Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans Costas Kadis are being urged to take action against destructive fishing practices in Europe\u2019s protected marine areas. Bottom trawling involves dragging heavy nets along the seabed. Previous research has shown that not only does this fishing practice damage marine habitats, it\u2019s also a leading contributor of CO2 emissions &#8211; from both fossil fuel consumption by vessels and by disturbing sediment at the bottom of the sea.<\/p>\n<p>A newly launched campaign, Protect Our Catch, sent open letters to the two European politicians on Wednesday urging them to take action. The campaign has been backed by fishermen and hundreds of thousands of citizen activists and is supported by a number of leading ocean advocates including BLOOM, Blue Marine Foundation, Empesca\u2019t, Environmental Justice Foundation, Oceana, Only One, Seas At Risk, and Tara Ocean Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign group points out that public support for marine protection is growing across Europe. Polls show that 90 per cent of people believe protected areas are essential for preserving marine biodiversity, and 73 per cent would support a ban on bottom trawling in marine protected areas. Nearly 80 per cent of the EU\u2019s coastal seabed has now been physically disturbed &#8211; primarily because of bottom trawling, according to the European Environment Agency. A quarter of the EU\u2019s coastal area is thought to have lost its natural seabed habitats.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2025\/02\/05\/ngos-and-fishermen-call-for-urgent-action-to-end-bottom-trawling-in-marine-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\/4-663\/\">NGOs and fishermen call for urgent action to end bottom trawling in marine protected areas<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","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":[17844,575,7517,1820],"class_list":["post-137261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bottom-trawling","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-marine-life","tag-protection"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}