{"id":36241,"date":"2023-06-08T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travesiapirenaica.com\/?p=36241"},"modified":"2023-06-12T12:44:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T10:44:30","slug":"patagonia-launches-global-campaign-to-save-our-oceans-a-call-to-action-against-trawling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travesiapirenaica.com\/en\/patagonia-launches-global-campaign-to-save-our-oceans-a-call-to-action-against-trawling\/","title":{"rendered":"Patagonia launches global campaign to save our oceans: A call to action against trawling"},"content":{"rendered":"
Europeans call on governments to put an end to bottom trawling, starting with an immediate ban in marine protected areas and coastal zones.<\/h5>

Amsterdam, 8 June <\/em>2023 - On World Oceans Day 2023 (8 June), Patagonia is launching a global environmental campaign, focused on protecting and restoring the oceans. Through a series of films, a dedicated website, petitions and events across Europe, Patagonia will mobilise people and call on governments to put an end to trawling by imposing an end to the use of trawl fishing. immediate prohibition in marine protected areas and coastal zones<\/a>.<\/p>

In Europe, the campaign's partners include the NGOs\u00a0Bloom<\/a>,\u00a0Blue Ventures<\/a>,\u00a0ClientEarth<\/a>,\u00a0Environmental Justice Foundation<\/a>,\u00a0Oceana<\/a>\u00a0e\u00a0Seas At Risk<\/a>.<\/p>

Connecting us through food, tradition and sport, our ocean is home to many thriving life forms and also a powerful climate solution. Yet the practice of trawling threatens to destroy this precious resource, devastating the seabed, harming artisanal fisheries and exacerbating the climate crisis.<\/p>

Bottom trawling is one of the most damaging practices inflicted by man on our oceans: it destroys seabed ecosystems, overexploits fishing grounds and indiscriminately kills all forms of life, from turtles to rays to sharks.<\/p>

It also has a huge impact on the climate. Dragging nets along the seabed consumes more fuel and produces four times more emissions than other types of fishing. It destroys sediments and eradicates marine plants and animals that absorb carbon from the atmosphere. The oceans absorb a quarter of all the carbon dioxide we produce, but trawling threatens to destroy this precious resource. We must protect our ocean so that it can continue to protect us.<\/p>

Patagonia will use the campaign and films to promote regenerative alternatives to this destructive industrial practice, such as 3D ocean algae farming and Posidonia restoration. As fishermen with small and low-impact activities make up about half of the European fishing workforce, which is often affected by trawling, Patagonia offers them a platform and calls for support in the necessary transition.<\/p>

The campaign is being launched at a critical time for the protection of Europe's marine environment, with a\u00a0growing biodiversity crisis<\/a>\u00a0and a heated debate on European initiatives such as the Nature Restoration Act and the Oceans Action Plan.

The series of eight short documentaries tells the stories of people from around the world, from South Korea to Chilean Patagonia, Portugal and Wales, who take matters into their own hands and show us how we can work with our ocean, not against it.<\/p>

Films telling stories of European seabed restoration include:<\/p>