August 13, 2014 — Oceana is urging the Spanish government to put a stop to trawling in the Minorca Channel, which although banned in 2006, is still carried out with impunity.
The Mediterranean Regulation, the European legislation which came into effect in 2006 and prohibited trawling over coral and maerl ecosystems, was implemented to protect these vulnerable ecosystems, but studies show that pressure from trawling has increased in recent years because of growth in the fleet operating in this zone.
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