Why we need to mobilize against deep-sea bottom trawling: Claire Nouvian at TEDxAUCollege

Europe is currently discussing the fate of the deep ocean in the North East Atlantic. The European Commission has proposed to ban what scientists describe as the most destructive fishing gear in history, deep-sea bottom trawling, a heavily subsidized, fuel-intensive fishing method that destroys fragile millenary corals that live in the dark depths of the ocean. But industrial fishing lobbies from France and Spain have launched a war on European institutions to defeat the will of citizens and scientists in order to protect their short-term interests. With a petition signed by over 835,000 people, the non-profit organization BLOOM, founded by Claire Nouvian, is at the forefront of a battle against absurd economic and ecological models of exploitation.

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