Historic progress: the European Parliament voted to ban electric fishing (571 votes for and 60 against) on 16 April 2019.

The European Parliament and EU member states clinched an agreement late last night (13 February) over new technical conservation measures for fishing, which includes an EU-wide ban on the controversial pulse trawling starting from mid-2021.

The European Union's legislature is calling for a ban on electric pulse fishing by which some fish are startled up from the seabed and easily scooped up in nets.

Brexiteers hail new law despite not needing to be outside EU to implement it.