Trawl nets restricted in new regulations for Mediterranean fishing

EU - New fishing regulations aimed at safeguarding the fishery resources of the Mediterranean Sea come into force today. The measures, jointly agreed by the 24 members of FAO's General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM), are now to be enforced at the national level by all GFCM members.

Among the new measures now in force is a ban on towed trawl nets and dredges at depths greater than 1,000 metres.

Additionally, GFCM countries have agreed to take a number of steps to tighten oversight of and reporting on tuna-fattening operations, also known as capture-based aquaculture, a technique in which small fish are caught in the wild and then penned and fattened using aquaculture techniques.

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Source: FishUpdate

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