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The destructive fishing practice destroys underwater ecosystems, kills marine life and kicks up soils needed to store carbon dioxide.

The IWT said it believed bottom trawling “falls within the category of ‘environmentally damaging extractive industrial activities”.

As countries meet in New York this week to discuss marine environmental protection efforts, campaigners are demanding a fresh global treaty to tackle the problem

It involves a trade-off between seafood production and seabed conservation.

The Sri Lankan Navy has arrested 12 Indian fishermen and seized two fishing trawlers for allegedly poaching in the country's territorial waters, an official statement said on Sunday.

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Thursday, August 12, Port Dunedin: Greenpeace activists have this evening underlined the call for bottom trawling to be banned on seamounts, confronting Talley’s ship the Amaltal Explorer as it headed out for more ocean destruction. A small team of ...

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Trawling takes place near a beach in Kundapur which can adversely affect the marine ecosystem MANGALURU: Experts, including marine conservationists, have raised concern about the rampant trawling taking place near the shore, across the Karnataka coast, that is leading to the destruction of fish breeding locations on the seabed, and severe depletion of marine stocks. The Karnataka Marine Fishing Regulatory Act permits mechanised fishing only after six nautical miles, and fishing near the shore ...

Standard here its up well north sea place docks are stable but theres more to certification than that the fishery is not supposed to use methods that damage the ocean ecosystem but the eco fish vessels also use dragnets like these which are controversial. dr one hundred floors and hes from the geo mar ocean research center in kiel germany. the marine biologist supported the m.s.c. for years but then he studied one hundred thirty certified fisheries and discovered that one third of the stocks wer...