Bottom Trawling Moratorium

Have a look at this video that Green Peace has made, simply titled "Blame Canada (and España)" which uses South Park as their means to discuss Canada's lack of participation in the recent Bottom Trawling Moratorium.

I honestly don't know as much as I should about this issue, but from what I understand, this moratorium is for international waters and is not actually talking about a full ban, but rather is looking for bottom trawling to cease while the actual process is re-evaluated.

Bottom trawling is fishing that involves dragging large, non-specific nets along the ocean floor. For more check out Wikipedia.

It seems that Canada doesn't feel that trawling is damaging in our country because we have sandy sea floors rather than corals or other sensitive sea life. Although the moratorium only applies to International waters, there is fear that agreement may eventually lead to exclusion of trawling in our own waters.

That's how I understand it at least - watch the video...it's entertaining at the least.