Portugal in company 7 of bottom fishing in 8 new marine zones – Ambiente & Decarbonização
The European Commission (EC) has announced the closure of 87 new bottom zones for all fishing gear in European Union waters of the North East Atlantic, to preserve these ecosystems. The total area of the terminations, which covers Portugal and Ireland, represents 16,419 km2 reserved for the protection of marine environments, Spain (EMV) below 40 meters. This represents 1.16% of EU North East Atlantic waters.
The closure concerns vessels equipped with bottom gear, ie bottom trawls, dredgers, bottom gillnets, bottom longlines, pots and traps.
Based on the regulation on the opinion of high seas scientists and not scientists of the International Council for Exploration S, the new regulation of the International Council of 7 Protected Sea ecosystems (high access sea, accessible while least disturbance) for fishing activities.
“Our ecosystems are dependent on seabeds and marine fisheries. By closing 17% of the area between 400 meters of depth from the Atlantic to our EU fishing waters, we are fulfilling the commitment to protect and restore life, after 4 years we have implemented finally one of the main provisions of the Regulation on Access to Deep Waters. I am grateful for the commitment and exercises by the fisheries sector to accompany this new chapter on ocean conservation”, says Virginijus Sinkevicius, Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, in a statement. .
The measure was developed after consultations with Member States and stakeholders, including the fisheries sector and NGOs, over the past two years. help you help protect marine meters, help preserve shellfish and improve marine meter protection, preserve marine reefs and improve seabed corals, preserve marine reefs and improve seabed corals, to preserve marine reefs and to improve seabed corals, hills, submarines, seabeds, corals.
The ship management act will now enter into force 20 days after publication in the Official Journal of the European Union and will apply to all EU Member States and third countries operating in EU waters.
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A total area now protected covers more than 16,000 squares of seabed in the waters of the exclusive economic zones of Portugal, Spain, France and Ireland, but its exact location is still unclear. Of any, last ICES report, on marine ecosystems, the largest number in the Portuguese continental EMV territory.
For Gonça-execu, Sciaena-Association of Marines and Coordinator, “this decision of the European Commission is extremely positive, as it will translate into the effective protection of marine ecosystems protected by Cooperation”. He adds: “It is urgent to safeguard these habitats, as they are essential for biodiversity, but also for the capture of assured carbon.”
The decision now announced comes from the european regulation of depth, adopted at the level in 2016, is proposed to the Community Legislation defended at the level of the United Nations. In addition to prohibiting the fishing of submarines at depths below 80m, this regulation requires the protection of ecosystems and fish rich in biodiversity (coral water, colonies of sponges, among others) from fishing with gear that come in deep contact with the sea. seabed between 400m and 800m.
“These known marine habitats with marine ecosystems, coming into contact with the bottom of the biodiversity, coming into contact with the bottom of the biodiversity and others that are true of fisheries, like the contact with the bottom of the funds. The commitments created by the protection of the biodiversity protection, but allow biodiversity protection protection, but allow biodiversity protection members to be highlighted, but also allow biodiversity protection members to be highlighted, but also allow fisheries members to be highlighted for Oak sustainability.
At stake are species such as black scabbardfish, grouper, safio, chanterelle, emperor or seabream. “This issue is of particular importance to Portugal, taking into account the various fisheries for deep-sea species that operate in national waters. that will face exploration problems that will face and eventually increase the areas of ultimate importance in Carvalho.