tuna fisheries clash over Indian Ocean temporary ban on driftnets

tuna fisheries clash over Indian Ocean temporary ban on driftnets

Source: Fox News

3/1/2023

tuna fisheries clash over Indian Ocean temporary ban on driftnets

Credit: AP Photo/Brian Inganga

An ongoing row between the European Union and coastal Indian Ocean nations over sustainable tuna fishing continues to simmer after a resolution in early February temporarily banned the use of destructive driftnets despite opposition from the European bloc.

Civil society organizations sent a petition Wednesday to the EU's oceans and environment commissioner, Virginijus Sinkevičius, accusing fisheries lobbies of exerting undue pressure on Brussels to object to the ban which applies to fisheries devices used by some corporations in the bloc.