It's called SATURN - Antitrawling Structures for the Protection and Natural Restoration - and its objective is to defend the sea from illegal bottom trawling, especially in marine protected areas at less than three miles from the coast.  

The Sinis Peninsula – Mal di Ventre Island Marine Protected Area will be the first area in Sardinia to adopt a seabed defense system, designed in collaboration with the same fishermen who identified the most vulnerable areas. About sixty bollards, produced by Tecnoreef, will be positioned in the coming weeks off the coast of Sinis, barriers strategically arranged in a chessboard on a sandy bottom at a depth of about 35 metres. 

The 14th meeting of the Ramsar Wetlands Conference (COP14) was held in Geneva from 5 to 13 November 2022, simultaneously also in Wuhan, China. At the International Conference Center in Geneva (CICG) all the contracting countries of the RAMSAR convention on wetlands – over 170 - met, to reiterate the urgency of putting the principles of the Convention on wetlands into the field, in line with the conservation, restoration and supervision of the rational use of wetlands. 

The MEDSEA foundation participated as an observer in the plenary sessions and collateral events at the Geneva appointment. During one of the collateral events dedicated to Nature-based Solutions in the Mediterranean, MEDSEA brought some of the most significant actions of the Maristanis project, chosen as a good practice together with three other international experiences, the results of which were shared with colleagues from all over the world.