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The method, called bottom trawling, resulted in 370 million metric tons of carbon emissions released every year between 1996 and 2020—40% of annual U.S. transportation emissions— according to researchers, who believe reducing global bottom trawling is essential in reducing carbon emissions.
Fishing nets churn up carbon from the sea floor, more than half of which will eventually be released into the atmosphere
Some scientists say the controversial fishing practice of ocean trawling stirs up buried organic matter, some of which makes its way to the surface in the form of carbon dioxide
A marine expedition, including a researcher from the Marshall Islands, have visited Bikini atoll, as part of a scientific voyage across the Pacific Islands.
Visits to Chinese distant-water fishing ships reveal in stark detail a broad pattern of human rights and labor abuses, even deaths from violence