Submitted on Tuesday 26th November 2013
Published on Wednesday 27th November 2013
Current status: Closed
Closed: Thursday 27th February 2014
Signatures: 506
STOP paying French fishing fleet to bottom-trawl in UK waters
We urge you to support the European proposal to ban deep-sea bottom trawling, which is recognized as one of the most destructive fishing methods in history.
This underperforming, subsidy dependent, unprofitable activity concerns less than a dozen French and Spanish vessels whereas its environmental impact is highly disproportionate: huge weighted nets rake and destroy the most vulnerable ocean ecosystems, catching more than 100 species, which are discarded but count endangered animals.
These industrial fisheries devastate our natural heritage by scraping the longest-lived animals on the planet: corals that are thousands of years old, and that should be preserved like Egyptian mummies are.
Mr. Cameron, we ask you to honour your 'green' commitments and to put an end to the deforestation of the deep oceans. We ask you to fully support the proposal to ban deep-sea bottom trawling.
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