Factoid/2008/03/06
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Bottom Trawling Is So Bad That Its Effects Are Visible from Space
- "Bottom trawling, an industrial fishing method that drags large, heavy nets across the seafloor, stirs up huge, billowing plumes of sediment on shallow seafloors that can be seen from space... What satellites can see is only the 'tip of the iceberg,'..." - excerpt from this ENS article.
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