Emmanuel Macron recalled to his ambitions, earlier than the Nice summit in June | EUROtoday

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Fishermen go up fish in their Maillant net, in the Gulf of Gascogne, in the Atlantic Ocean, on January 8, 2020.

In France, protected marine areas, presupposed to be sanctuaries of marine biodiversity, should not actually so. Four months from the subsequent United Nations Conference on the Ocean, which shall be held in Nice in June, eight environmental organizations, together with Bloom and the Tara Ocean Foundation, name for the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, And remind him of his ambitions within the matter.

In an open letter, printed on Wednesday February 5, 2025 on Wednesday, as a part of the launch of their marketing campaign “Protect Our Catch: the voice of the ocean”, they declare specifically the “ Prohibition of destructive peach methods such as background trawling ” in French protected marine areas.

These areas, 564 in 2022, aim to protect marine biodiversity and its habitat. They officially cover just over 30 % of French sea spaces, a threshold set by the government in 2019. A third of them must even be under a so -called “sturdy” level of protection. However, this status “French” is largely – and for a long time – criticized by environmental organizations because it does not strictly prohibit industrial activities, especially fishing. A prohibition however recommended by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

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