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  • News | 15 Sep 2022
Fisheries: End to bottom fishing on protected deep-sea ecosystems in EU waters

In line with the ambition to protect nature and restore biodiversity, as stated in the EU Biodiversity Strategy, the Commission has acted to close 87 sensitive zones to all bottom gears in the EU waters of the North-East Atlantic. Based on the Deep-sea Access Regulation and on the advice from the scientists of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), the new regulation protects 57 vulnerable deep-sea ecosystems while generating the least disruption possible to the fishing activities.

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