date:Dec 11, 2013
The European Parliament voted to pass some reforms on deep-sea fishing, but rejected a proposed ban on deep-sea bottom trawling and gillnetting, the subject of a high-profile petition.
Environmental groups called for the ban, including a petition supported by a high-profile ad campaign from the group Fishlove.
The parliament did vote to give final approval to a revamping of the E.U.'s common fisheries policy (CFP), and did pass some regulations regarding deep-sea fishing, but the rejection of