Industrial fishing has caused immense damage to ocean life, but given the right protection, the sea has miraculous powers of recovery.
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Most of the carbon disturbed by trawls is unreactive and difficult to convert to CO₂.
It involves a trade-off between seafood production and seabed conservation.
Coral reefs get a lot of attention, but the world has lost almost all of its vital oyster reefs in the last few centuries.
Trawling – dragging heavy gear over ocean bottoms in search of fish near the sea floor – is arguably one of the most destructive human practices. Removing fish from the sea for an ever-hungry, growing…
Bottom trawling by fishing fleets has caused widespread concern over the environmental damage done to seabed habitats and marine life. It seems obvious that powerful boats towing large heavy nets that…
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