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📰 Update · 2d
A historic victory for BLOOM and small-scale fishers against factory ships and industrial lobbies
📰 Update · 3d
A first in France: BLOOM analyses thirty years of public subsidies to the fishing sector
📰 Update · 3w
France leads Europe in abandoning coastal fishers in favour of giving more public money to mega-industrial interests
📰 Update · Sep 29
THE 33-METRE MEASURE: BLOOM calls for the scrapping of vessels over 33 metres in length to put an end to mega-industrial devastation
📰 Update · Sep 21
BLOOM reveals how 80 years of European public policy have led to a catastrophic ocean fail
📰 Update · Jul 8
A first test in the European Parliament for the EU Budget: Global Europe must not fund overseas industrial fishing
🎥 Video · Jun 23
La destruction du monde, une fatalité ?
📰 Update · Jun 11
Exclusive analysis reveals how thirty years of European subsidies have wrecked the ocean and fishers
900,000 Signatures That Banned Trawling Below 800 Metres
Oceans & Coasts🇫🇷 France
A tiny Paris NGO took on France's industrial fishing lobby with a comic strip, 900,000 signatures and a decade of stubbornness — and got deep-sea trawling outlawed across the EU.
900ksignaturesSignatures on the deep-sea trawling petition
800metresDepth below which EU bottom trawling is banned