Driftnetting is a highly indiscriminate form of fishing in which huge numbers of fish and marine mammals die every year. As part of our global campaign to reduce bycatch (estimated to involve as much as 10 percent of the life taken out of the ocean globally by commercial fishing, and even more in the Mediterranean), Oceana has been campaigning vigorously to enforce the European laws which forbid driftnetting.

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