The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition

The DSCC was founded in 2004, to address the issue of bottom trawling on the high seas in the absence of an effective governance regime. The coalition is made up of over 70 non-governmental organisations, fishers organisations and law and policy institutes, all committed to protecting the deep sea.

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