00:00Marching along Nice's famous promenade.
00:04Activists from around the world demanding meaningful change ahead of the UN Ocean Conference.
00:12The global gathering set to tackle pollution, illegal fishing and more,
00:16will also shine a spotlight on a difficult dilemma for host country France, bottom trolling.
00:23While the President has set out high ambitions for the summit,
00:26he is caught between a growing row over the impacts of the fishing method,
00:30commonly used off the French coast.
00:35We expect this conference to make leaders take concrete measures to protect the oceans,
00:40particularly in France.
00:42We are behind.
00:43We have marine protected areas that aren't truly protected
00:47and that is the key measure we want to push through this march.
00:51Bottom trolling is a destructive fishing practice that uses toad nets to catch fish.
00:58Emmanuel Macron told local newspapers Saturday that he wants to limit the activity
01:03in certain parts of French marine protected areas.
01:06Just two months ago he received an open letter from 60 scientists
01:10and environmental experts calling for a ban.
01:13But many French fishermen claim environmental measures are slowly killing the industry,
01:22calling bottom trolling a necessity.
01:25France claims to have protected 33% of its ocean with specially designed marine protected areas,
01:31but conservation groups argue that 98% of them allow destructive activities.
01:36Last month the Greek government banned bottom trolling in the waters around its islands,
01:43hoping to set an example for other Mediterranean countries.
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