EU Action Plan: protecting and restoring marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries

Tabled by Caroline Roose, Anja Hazekamp, Catherine Chabaud, Raphaël Glucksmann, Sirpa Pietikäinen, Marie Toussaint, Manon Aubry, Alviina Alametsä, François Alfonsi, Rasmus Andresen, Margrete Auken, Benoît Biteau, Michael Bloss, Saskia Bricmont, Reinhard Bütikofer, Damien Carême, Anna Cavazzini, Ignazio Corrao, David Cormand, Ciarán Cuffe, Rosa D’Amato, Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield, Karima Delli, Anna Deparnay-Grunenberg, Bas Eickhout, Malte Gallée, Claude Gruffat, Francisco Guerreiro, Henrike Hahn, Martin Häusling, Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana, Ska Keller, Philippe Lamberts, Katrin Langensiepen, Lydie Massard, Erik Marquardt, Sara Matthieu, Tilly Metz, Hannah Neumann, Ville Niinistö, Grace O’Sullivan, Jutta Paulus, Piernicola Pedicini, Kira Marie Peter-Hansen, Manuela Ripa, Bronis Ropė, Mounir Satouri, Tineke Strik, François Thiollet, Kim Van Sparrentak, Viola von Cramon-Taubadel, Thomas Waitz, Sarah Wiener, Laura Ferrara, Michal Wiezik, Karen Melchior, Pascal Durand, Pierre Larrouturou, Marina Mesure, Leila Chaibi, José Gusmão, Petros Kokkalis, Marisa Matias, Younous Omarjee, Anne-Sophie Pelletier, Malin Björk, Miguel Urbán Crespo, Idoia Villanueva Ruiz, Helmut Scholz, Stelios Kouloglou, Özlem Demirel, Aurore Lalucq, Antoni Comín i Oliveres, Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó, Pär Holmgren, Alice Kuhnke, Jakop G. Dalunde, Patrick Breyer, Silvia Modig, Nikolaj Villumsen, María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos

Added: 14a. Reiterates its call to launch and fund scientific research programmes for mapping carbon-rich marine habitats in EU waters, which would serve as a basis for designating such areas as strictly protected MPAs, in order to protect and restore marine carbon sinks in line with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and to protect and restore ecosystems, in particular those on the seabed, in line with the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, thereby protecting them from human activities that could disturb and release carbon into the water column, such as bottom-contact fishing operations;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE756.735