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Bottom Trawling Harms Marine Life and the Seabed

"Bottom trawling - dragging nets across the sea floor to scoop up fish - stirs up the sediment lying on the seabed, displaces or harms some marine species, causes pollutants to mix into plankton and move into the food chain and creates harmful algae blooms or oxygen-deficient dead zones."- excerpt from article at reuters.com.

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