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"The sea you don't expect", "What happens over there?"

Last 19 July started the  ISPRA's dissemination campaign to tell about thespecific activities developed by its researchers, in compliance with the shared programs in Europe, both through observation and monitoring of marine environments, and in the field of laboratory research.
The fourteenth is dedicated to the impact of fishing on the marine ecosystem.
The seas and oceans around the world, which cover 70 percent of the earth's surface and provide half the oxygen we breathe every day, face a threat that threatens to undermine their survival more quickly and even more invasively. of global warming. In fact, fishing is causing the depletion of fish stocks, the destruction of habitats and the impoverishment of coastal communities. According to the requirements of the Marine Strategy, all commercial stocks must be exploited in a sustainable way.