This #EarthDay , we wanted to celebrate the Nature Restoration Law but 🇪🇺 governments failed to adopt it 🤷‍♀️

To #RestoreNature & #RestoreOcean means to protect Europe from the worst impacts of climate change.

We had an agreement, EU Council. Respect it. Seal the deal!

🎣 Is there a hidden catch in aquaculture's promise of abundance?

2024 #PewMarineFellow Marine Cusa, a policy advisor @Oceana, aims to trace the origins of fish meal diets and improve transparency and sustainability in the seafood industry. pew.org/4aKIAPG

Amazing #biodiversity 🪸! So importance to protect from fishing impacts. Last year, General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean adopted temporary closure to #bottomtrawling , Oceana in Europe now calls on a permanent closure FRA to be adopted w/ support from EU Maritime & Fish Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación Maroc Diplomatie 🇲🇦

Amazing all-female panel at our side-event on transparency and traceability as key opportunities to #StopIUUfishing . EU Maritime & Fish Director-General Charlina Vitcheva outlines the EU’s multiple-pronged approach to leverage global action to fight illegal fishing. #OurOcean2024

Spanish Envi Minister Teresa Ribera 🌹 says that 'the country has achieved a lot when it comes to protecting its waters', but recognises that 'there is a lot to be done to manage them better.'

We think that #BanBottomTrawling in marine protected areas should be the next step!

#BREAKING : Greece becomes first European country to ban bottom trawling in marine parks | @Oceana's 🐟 Nicolas_Fournier🐟 says, “We hope this creates a domino effect on other European countries to do the same.'

Via Karen McVeigh & Helena Smith for The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…

It’s safe to say we put the oceans through a lot. And it takes bold action to counteract these harsh effects. Yet, there is still hope for the oceans and our planet's future, actor and @Oceana board member Ted Danson writes for euronews. Oceana in Europe

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🪸 Shifting from conservation to restoration of the ocean is critically important. To achieve that, we need to properly safeguard marine protected areas and go beyond the 30x30 commitment, says Oceana Senior Advisor, Alexandra Cousteau at #OurOcean2024 in Greece

An area that allows industrial fishing such as bottom trawling should not count as a protected area, highlights Enric Sala. Greece has committed to banning the practice by 2030, and we expect France to announce the same next year in Nice Hervé Berville. #OurOcean2024

We do not often agree, but just now at the #OurOcean2024 Javier Garat said 'active fisheries management works, lines on a map don't.' That is why Seas At Risk and Oceana in Europe today launched this 👇report showing the shocking amount of destructive bottom trawling in EU MPAs.

Ireland still in the slow lane
Malcolm Noonan T.D. Micheál Martin Darragh O'Brien Steven Matthews TD Grace O'Sullivan MEP

New scientific advice out today by ICES confirms that bottom trawling in the EU concentrates into core areas which account for most of the total seafood landings and so it is possible to #BanBottomTrawling at minimum economic costs
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Banning bottom trawling in marine protected areas is like 'taking an axe' to the fishing industry? Wrong. Bottom trawling is like taking a bulldozer to our ocean's beating heart 🩵

It harms the future of fishing & our ocean. It has no place in MPAs ❌
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We're at #OurOcean2024 . Greece has just announced that it will #BanBottomTrawling in all its marine protected areas by 2030. The country also aims to protect 30% of its waters by the end of this year. Now it's time for other EU Member States to act in the same direction!

Greece has announced that it will #BanBottomTrawling in all its #MPAs by 2030, starting with banning it in all national parks by 2026. It will also designate 30% of its waters as MPAs by 2024. It can be done - what are the remaining EU Member States waiting for? #OurOcean2024

Secretary John Kerry in #OurOcean2024 conference: 'There is no time to rest when less than 3% of our oceans is highly protected'

9th Our Ocean Conference welcome remarks:

“What’s good with statistics is that they are very clear” George Gerapetritis Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών

“The ocean can save us but we have to save the ocean first”

#OurOceanGreece #OurOcean2024

2/2 We need to have nature backed solutions. Sustainability becoming a mockery. We must accelerate.This is what the Athens consensus should be. Athens must be the place and moment to agree to make our collective marathon a sprint.

.John Kerry at #OurOcean2024 : No time to rest when #IUUfishing deplets stocks and growing worse, when less than 3% of the world ocean highly protracted and no time to rest with climate change. #BBNJ must be ratified, #PlasticsTreaty completed and new #MPAs implemented. 1/2

Strong call from John Kerry for countries to back up announcements of #MPAs with effective protection. Oceana in Europe with our partners Seas At Risk and onlyone are launching today a joint campaign to #BanBottomTrawling in EU MPAs - because yes, that’s still happening. #OurOcean