Art and activism: How a Tuscan fisherman stopped bottom trawling in his local bay

Cecilia Keating
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Fisherman Paolo Fanciulli has mounted a decades-long fight against bottom trawling off the coast of his Tuscan town | Credit: Patagonia
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Fisherman Paolo Fanciulli has mounted a decades-long fight against bottom trawling off the coast of his Tuscan town | Credit: Patagonia

BusinessGreen reports from Talamone, where a fisherman reflects on a 30-year fight to put an end to industrial fishing practices that harm biodiversity and the climate

In a small Tuscan town roughly two hours drive north of Rome, a local fisherman has spent decades taking on the bottom trawling ships that drop and drag heavy, weighted nets across the seabed. Paolo...

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