ASCOBANS Parties Make Recommendations for Tackling Small Cetacean Bycatch in Europe
Harbour porpoise near fishing net © Boris Culik, F3 Bonn – On 30 October 2015, the Executive Secretary of ASCOBANS, on behalf of the Agreement’s ten Parties, transmitted to the European Commission the outcomes of a one-year process to develop a common position of ASCOBANS Parties relating to the requirements of legislation to address monitoring and mitigation of small cetacean bycatch.