# @oceana on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DKxCe2mMzHZ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/31504607-oceana-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-06-11T15:53:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Oceana (@oceana) — https://gondola.cc/oceana

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🚫 Bottom trawling has no place in marine protected areas. 

But in both the UK and France, it’s happening on a massive scale. 

Oceana’s latest reports reveal that in 2024 alone: 
 🇫🇷 France’s most iconic protected areas experienced 17,000 hours of bottom trawling in 2024 
 🇬🇧 UK offshore protected areas saw more than 20,000 hours of this destructive fishing method last year 

Bottom trawling involves dragging heavy nets across the seafloor — wrecking habitats and harming marine life. Doing this in so-called "protected" areas makes no sense. 

We’re at the UN Ocean Conference this week calling on governments to ban bottom trawling in marine protected areas — because ocean protection must mean real protection. #UNOC3

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