More On Bottom Trawling Ban - Great News
May 8, 2007 @ 09:59 AM (EST)
Source: Panda.org
A landmark agreement has been reached to end high seas bottom trawling, one of the world's most destructive fishing practices, in nearly a quarter of the world's oceans.
The deal, made at an international fisheries meeting in Chile by some 20 countries, including the majority of the world's high seas fishing nations, seeks to protect marine life and vulnerable ecosystems in a huge area of the oceans - from Australia to South America and from the Equator to the Antarctic...
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