Protect Our Catch is a new European campaign supported by leading ocean advocates BLOOM, Blue Marine Foundation, Empesca’t, Environmental Justice Foundation, Oceana, Only One, Seas At Risk and Tara Ocean Foundation, in collaboration with fishers, that joins hundreds of thousands of citizen activists is calling on European leaders to ban destructive fishing such as bottom trawling in marine protected areas (MPAs). In so doing, it confronts two critical and related issues: supporting the future of small-scale fishing while protecting and restoring marine ecosystems.
In letters sent this week to French president, Emmanuel Macron and EU Commissioner…