The Solution: global regulation of industrial fishing

This global threat to deep sea life in international waters needs an international solution.

That's why Greenpeace and a coalition of other environmental groups have been working to convince the United Nations that a moratorium is urgently needed.

A moratorium on high seas bottom trawling would immediately halt the bottom trawling in these sensitive areas and allow time for scientists to study the deep sea life.

Scientists would report to the United Nations and advise which areas of the deep sea need to be permanently protected and which may be fished. It would also allow time for world leaders to put in place longer term legal measures. At the moment, bottom trawlers are wiping out the unknown worlds of the deep sea before new species are even known to exist.

Take Action: demand that the Canadian government support a UN moratorium on bottom trawling