25 June 2004
December 2013
25 June 2004
In a few weeks, more than 400 articles, radio and television talk about deep-sea bottom trawling and the vote at the European Parliament. The controversy created from scratch by industrial lobbies soon finds an echo among journalists who discover the issue. The controversy finally withers at the hearing at the French National Assembly (BLOOM gives a speech), when the research center Ifremer disavows a document published on its website, the only one to talk about “sustainable” deep-sea fishing and contradicting all scientific studies alarming on the threats to biodiversity made by deep-sea bottom trawling.