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Bad Boat of the Week: The WILLEM VAN DER ZWAN, (W. van der Zwan & Zn BV.) is a destructive Bottom Trawler that claims to be sustainable but travels between the NE and the UK to scrape every living thing off the ocean floor, while stealing local fishing jobs.

GRWM to defend bottom trawling

Only 0.3% of Europe's waters are protected from the destruction of bottom trawlers... the rest of marine protected areas in the EU allow harmful practices. How protected are they really?

only 90s kids will remember

Everyone goes crazy about the U.S. president opening nature preserves for exploitation, but our "leaders" in the EU aren't any different

By this, we mean the massive industrial fleets that have become more powerful and require fewer crew, so they're not even creating jobs anymore. Small-scale fisheries that respect wildlife are suffering. Industrial fisheries are obliterating the ocean and our livelihoods.

Rick Harris Bad Dutch boat, for example.

Reason #1247793 why billionaires are bad for the planet

Bottom trawling actually costs us billions of euros... we subsidize this damage :')

“to safeguard both the marine environment and the future of fisheries, it is vital that all forms of trawling are conducted in a manner that minimises damage to the seabed” great, they want to "minimise damage" — but no mention of what that actually looks like. if they're still

Ruining everything for future generations one ecosystem at a time :)))

On today’s list of evil companies dead-set on destroying our vital ecosystems and exploiting labor, we have… ☠️Parlevliet & Van der Plas ☠️ Cornelis Vrolijk ☠️Van der Zwan ☠️Alda Seafood ☠️De Boer family Or, the “Big Five” horsemen of the sustainable fishing apocalypse.

Bottom trawling is destroying marine ‘protected’ areas, killing marine life, and taking jobs away from local fishers. Costas Kadis, what is the EU doing to stop this?