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The “Oceana Ranger” has left the island of Elba to patrol the Ligurian, Tyrrhenian and Balearic seas, looking for Italian fishing boats violating the European Union drifnet ban.
Corals, gorgonias, maërl and seagrass should be protected by the Habitats Directive.
EU Fishing Ministers are likely to agree to allow the reintroduction of subsidies for the “modernization” of the EU fleet.
The fishing boat was part of a group of driftnet fishing boats intercepted by Italian authorities to the north of Sicily and the south of Sardinia.
Esta semana se reune en Bruselas la Junta Directiva de Oceana, de la que forman parte el investigador francés Daniel Pauly, Profesor y Director del Centro de Investigaciones Pesqueras de la Universidad British Columbia (Canadá) y el actor estadounidense
Vidal is being accused by the American Justice Department for several alleged illegal fish importation offences, fraud, misrepresentation and the obstruction of justice. But he has been also sought by authorities in Australia and New Zeland.
Oceana has also called for a ban on the use of rockhopper gear, an artefact which, when attached to the underside of fishing gear, penetrates rocky and coralline ecosystems and causes serious damage.
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