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- The 2010 designation of Gökova Bay as a Marine Protected Area raised local fishers’ income by 300 percent.
- Marine ranger Aysenur Ölmez and local fishers patrol the bay’s 100-kilometre coastline each day.
- The European Commission plans to eliminate bottom trawling in all EU marine protected areas by 2030 after Greece and Sweden imposed bans.
- Professor Enric Sala’s study in Ocean & Coastal Management labels bottom trawling in European waters an economic failure.
