French NGO call to President Hollande: the Future of the Deep Oceans is in Your Hands.
Available in French.
8 June, 2013
1 June, 2013
Letter by the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition and other organisations to the French Minister of Ecology adressing ‘France’s commitment to biodiversity/ deep-sea fisheries dossier’.
Available in French.
1 April, 2005
The deep sea is one of the last frontiers on the planet – the home to breathtaking landscapes of mountains, hills, ridges and troughs that very few of us will ever see. Until approximately 30 years ago, it was assumed that there was little life in the cold and dark waters of the deep sea, which covers more than half the world’s surface. The advent of manned and unmanned submersible technology, however, has turned that belief on its head. The world deep beneath the oceans’ surface is far more diverse than had ever been imagined.
1 April, 2005
To protect deep-sea biodiversity on the high seas from continued indiscriminate destruction the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition is calling on the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to adopt an immediate moratorium on deep-sea bottom trawl fishing on the high seas until legally-binding regimes for the effective conservation and management of fisheries and the protection of biodiversity on the high seas can be developed, implemented and enforced by the global community.