DSCC and SCIAENA issue a reaction statement in response to news that the Portuguese Government will ban bottom trawling on seamounts on the high seas in the North Atlantic.

Reactio Statement by SCIAENA and Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) in response to ‘in the lead up to World Oceans Day, Portugal has enacted a ban on bottom trawling and bottom gillnet fishing over 2 million square kilometres of the North Atlantic Ocean.’

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