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Ancient forests in danger ... deep under the ocean. Biologists estimate that somewhere between 500,000 and 5,000,000 marine species have yet to be discovered. ... Number 1 Threat: Bottom Trawling...
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www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/botto...
www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/bottom-trawling
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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. ... As a result of scientific studies showing that bottom trawling kills vast numbers of corals, sponges, fishes and other animals,
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www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-02/s-bti021508.php
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This week will be our last chance for the UN to call for a moratorium on bottom trawling . The world is watching as Canada and Spain threaten to scupper what scientists call an "overwhelming" case. Take action now! ... That's like bottom trawling.
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oceans.greenpeace.org/en/the-expedition/news/bottom-tra...
oceans.greenpeace.org/en/the-expedition/news/bottom-trawling-the-un-decides
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As the EU, Russia, and South Korea sink a bottom-trawling protection plan at a key meeting in Hobart, we are now focusing our watchful eyes on the UN. ... Bottom trawling: EU, Russia, South Korea and Canada - the world is watching you. We been campaigning for a moratorium on bottom trawling for three years.
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oceans.greenpeace.org/en/the-expedition/news/bottom-tra...
oceans.greenpeace.org/en/the-expedition/news/bottom-trawling-eu
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Bottom trawling for fish is so destructive to marine environment that its plume can be seen from space! ... "Bottom trawling is the most destructive of any actions that humans conduct in the ocean," said zoologist Les Watling of the University of Hawaii.
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www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/bottom-trawling-as-seen-fr...
www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/bottom-trawling-as-seen-from-space/
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As a result of bottom trawling in these areas, critical fish habitat in Alaska state waters is currently being destroyed and will not recover for centuries if ever. ... Bottom Trawling Kills ... Bottom trawling is the most destructive fishing gear type recorded and reported on coral and sponge in Alaska,
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www.alaskaoceans.net/facts/bottomtrawling.htm
www.alaskaoceans.net/facts/bottomtrawling.htm
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Destructive fishing practices like bottom trawling waste more than 16 billion pounds of fish and kill countless marine mammals every year, while obliterating ocean habitat like coral reefs and seamounts that can take decades or centuries to recover.
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na.oceana.org/en/our-work/promote-responsible-fishing
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Bottom-trawling nets rip hundreds of tons of animals out of the ocean, squeezing some of them so ... Bottom Trawling “Advances”; When first developed, bottom-trawling nets were limited to parts of the ocean that had a soft sediment floor because rocks and coral tore holes in the netting, allowing fish to escape.
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www.fishinghurts.com/commercialFishing4.asp
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; Before and after: The effects of bottom trawling the seafloor are as devastating as clearcutting forests. ... (ENN) -- An extremely common industrial fishing method, known as bottom trawling, has the same devastating impact on the ocean bottom as clearcutting forests has on the Earth's surface, according to a series...
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www.cnn.com/TECH/science/9812/15/bottomtrawlers.yoto/
www.cnn.com/TECH/science/9812/15/bottomtrawlers.yoto/
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