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In an effort to fight this conservation measure, the fishing industry has made numerous fictitious claims aimed at downplaying the detrimental effects of bottom trawling on deep-sea ecosystems.
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www.americanchronicle.com/articles/12057
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Bottom trawling leaves behind huge sediment plumes, damage to ecosystems. ... Bottom trawling for fish stirs up billowing plumes of sediment that can be seen from space and destroys entire seafloor ecosystems, new imagery reveals.
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www.livescience.com/environment/080220-trawling-effects...
www.livescience.com/environment/080220-trawling-effects.html
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What are the effects of bottom-trawling? ... UNEP has reported that large-scale, industrial bottom trawling of traditional fishing grounds ruins local fisheries with devastating effects on local fishermen, industry and livelihoods. Often this is illegal, unregulated and unreported.
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www.worldfuturecouncil.org/effects_bottom-trawling.html
www.worldfuturecouncil.org/effects_bottom-trawling.html
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THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES; National Research Council; Division on Earth and Life Studies; Ocean Studies Board; Committee on Ecosystem Effects of Fishing: Phase 1 -- Effects of Bottom Trawling on Seafloor Habitats...
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www7.nationalacademies.org/ocga/briefings/Effects_of_Tr...
www7.nationalacademies.org/ocga/briefings/Effects_of_Trawling_and_Dredging_on_Seafloor_Habitat.asp
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Bottom trawling, for example, destroys entire ancient deep-sea coral forests and other delicate ecosystems. In some areas it is the equivalent of ploughing a field several times a year. ... The effects are already beginning to be felt. Whole species of marine animals and fish are at risk due to the temperature rise - they...
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www.greenpeace.org/new-zealand/campaigns/oceans
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Queirós, A.M., Hiddink, J.G., Hinz, H. and Kaiser, M.J., (2006). The effects of chronic bottom trawling disturbance on biomass, production and size spectra of invertebrate infauna communities from different habitats.
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www.sos.bangor.ac.uk/research/php/theme.php?project=385
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In 1998 and 1999 the NMFS, Auke Bay Laboratory, initiated studies to determine the effects of bottom trawling on these soft-bottom habitats. Direct comparisons were possible between areas that were consistently trawled each year and areas where bottom trawling had been prohibited for 11 to 12 years.
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www.afsc.noaa.gov/ABL/MESA/archives/effects%20of%20traw...
www.afsc.noaa.gov/ABL/MESA/archives/effects%20of%20trawl%20on%20seawhips.htm
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– The first study ever done of the effects of bottom trawling on mud seafloors off the West Coast of North America – a huge area that comprises thousands of square miles – suggests that trawling not only reduces fish numbers, but also severely alters communities of organisms inhabiting these deep-sea habitats.
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oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/newsarch/2007/Apr07/trawling.h...
oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/newsarch/2007/Apr07/trawling.html
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