The Deadliest Fishing method " Bottom Trawling ! . . They call it bottom trawling – a brutal fishing method that drags giant nets across the ocean floor, wiping out everything in its path. The worst part? Two-thirds of the catch is useless and tossed back… dead. 🌊💔 But some countries found a clever defense: dropping huge boulders that rip these deadly nets apart. 🪨⚡ Should the whole world adopt this? 🌍✨ #SaveTheOcean #MarineLife #FishingBan #SustainableLiving #OceanConservation #SeaLifeMatte
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The Deadliest Fishing method " Bottom Trawling ! . . They call it bottom trawling – a brutal fishing method that drags giant nets across the ocean floor, wiping out everything in its path. The worst part? Two-thirds of the catch is useless and tossed back… dead. 🌊💔 But some countries found a clever defense: dropping huge boulders that rip these deadly nets apart. 🪨⚡ Should the whole world adopt this? 🌍✨ #SaveTheOcean #MarineLife #FishingBan #SustainableLiving #OceanConservation #SeaLifeMatte
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Never-before-seen footage of bottom trawling's devastating effects 🌊 Bottom trawling is a fishing method where large, heavy nets are dragged across the seafloor by one or two boats to catch fish and other marine life that live on or near the bottom. This method was known to destroy sea life and habitats but now a landmark study has found that bottom trawling responsible for injecting up to 370 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year; with trawling in East China, Bal
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Never-before-seen footage of bottom trawling's devastating effects 🌊 Bottom trawling is a fishing method where large, heavy nets are dragged across the seafloor by one or two boats to catch fish and other marine life that live on or near the bottom. This method was known to destroy sea life and habitats but now a landmark study has found that bottom trawling responsible for injecting up to 370 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year; with trawling in East China, Bal
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What is bottom trawling?
What is bottom trawling?
Nov 1, 2019
legasea.co.nz
Using heavy nets to scrape the ocean floor, bottom trawling is described as being "destructive for both ocean life and the climate," destroying an area of the ocean floor nearly as large as the Amazon rainforest every year. Despite its effects on marine organisms and the environment, the practice still provides over a quarter of fishery catches around the world. Learn more: https://on.natgeo.com/44fuiFj Ocean with David Attenborough is now streaming on Disney and Hulu. | National Geographic
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Using heavy nets to scrape the ocean floor, bottom trawling is described as being "destructive for both ocean life and the climate," destroying an area of the ocean floor nearly as large as the Amazon rainforest every year. Despite its effects on marine organisms and the environment, the practice still provides over a quarter of fishery catches around the world. Learn more: https://on.natgeo.com/44fuiFj Ocean with David Attenborough is now streaming on Disney and Hulu. | National Geographic
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The Endless Fight Against Bottom Trawling 🪨🐟
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The Endless Fight Against Bottom Trawling 🪨🐟
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🎣 Bottom trawling destroys ocean life, often beyond repair. Research shows that just a single bottom trawl tow can reduce the abundance of marine animals in an area by an average of 55%. For vulnerable invertebrates, that number jumps to a 68% loss in one pass of a bottom trawling net. But it doesn’t end there… Some deep-sea habitats may never recover from bottom trawling damage. In one case study, even after 15 years of closure, benthic communities on seamounts show little to no signs of recov
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🎣 Bottom trawling destroys ocean life, often beyond repair. Research shows that just a single bottom trawl tow can reduce the abundance of marine animals in an area by an average of 55%. For vulnerable invertebrates, that number jumps to a 68% loss in one pass of a bottom trawling net. But it doesn’t end there… Some deep-sea habitats may never recover from bottom trawling damage. In one case study, even after 15 years of closure, benthic communities on seamounts show little to no signs of recov
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Bottom trawling is an indiscriminate fish harvesting process, capturing all in its path and scraping vital marine growth off the seabed. The damage is unseen as it’s underwater and out of sight. In this short video, Dr Simon Thrush, a marine scientist from Auckland University, and Matt Watson discuss how bottom trawling works and why it is so destructive. Sign up to LegaSea to find out more: https://legasea.co.nz/support-us/sign-up/ #StopBottomTrawling #BecauseOfTheQMS | LegaSea NZ
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