Factoid/2014/09/22
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Deep Sea Trawling is Like Clearcutting the Sea Floor
- "Bottom trawling is by far the most destructive method of fishing out there. Running nets sometimes larger than football fields along the seafloor, often with large “rollers” of metal or hard plastics, specifically made to crush anything in their way to protect the nets. The path of these trawlers can be clearly seen, even in thousands of meters of water. Very little, sometimes nothing, is left in their path, except the scars on the rocks to show you where they’d been." - excerpt from National Geographic article. Also see this infographic.
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