18 June 2018
Electric fishing: a perfect case of moral corruption
18 June 2018
BLOOM started fighting electric fishing because this destructive fishing technique jeopardizes marine life and destroys the most environmentally-friendly fishing jobs in the sector around the North Sea, where electric fishing is currently permitted.
The social tragedy became as crucial to us as the environmental urgency.
But then, months of investigation and research have unveiled an additional, unexpected component of the electric fishing ‘dossier’: a series of scandalous public decisions, fraudulent behaviours and infringements of EU law with the active complicity of public authorities, whether at EU or domestic level in the Netherlands.
Fighting the profound moral corruption of public institutions and decision-making has become of paramount importance to us.
READ OUR DOCUMENT “HAND IN HAND” ON THE MORAL CORRUPTION IN THE ELECTRIC FISHING CASE