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"The Attwooll report on the protection of the Darwin’s Mounds coral reefs from the effects of trawling has ceased to be so discriminatory and disproportionate in three crucial areas, thanks to the amendments that I tabled with the Committee on Fisheries and that have been adopted.
The Commission wanted to ban recourse to deep-sea trawlers well beyond the area of distribution of the Darwin’s Mounds. The text now refers to the 2002 Advisory Committee on Ecosystems (ACE) report in order to define this area which, in fact, covers two distinct zones ten times less extensive than that defined by the Commission.
Deep-sea trawlers were accused of systematically destroying the corals. It is now laid down that the measures provided for must relate exclusively – and avoiding any combination – to ‘fishing
gear likely to cause real damage’. Finally, there is a demand for the interested parties and the regional advisory councils
run by fishing professionals to participate in the decision-making process.
The issue of the legal and economic uncertainty involved in the application of the Habitats Directive to European waters arises again, however, in connection with the Commission’s new bans on trawling in various sectors around the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands."@en1
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