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MEPs back 800m deep water ban
29th December 2016
The European Parliament has backed a ban on bottom trawling below a depth of 800m in the North-East Atlantic. Trawling at greater depths than 800m will be illegal. New regulations will also restrict deep-sea fishing to the area where it…