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Nearly a quarter of the world’s wild-caught seafood is scooped up by bottom trawlers, fishing vessels that drag heavy nets over the seafloor. These boats fish the world over and support numerous global seafood supply chains. Yet critics have dogged them as environmentally unfriendly. Conservation experts say they can damage sensitive marine ecosystems, like deep-sea […]
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Bottom trawling is a previously unaccounted-for source of atmospheric carbon emissions, releasing 370 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year, scientists reveal.
Bottom trawling disturbs the ocean floor, releasing carbon dioxide, researchers found. Critics question whether “trawl disturbance” is different from the carbon flux that naturally occurs in oceans.