Icelandic Minister of Food Svandís Svavarsdóttir has confirmed a regulation on protection measures for vulnerable marine areas and bottom ecosystems.

The regulation defines three new areas in the country’s waters where bottom trawling will not be allowed. In addition, areas that were previously included in the Iceland Nature Reserve Regulation have been entered into the same regulation.

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