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Trawling for trouble: How fishing along the seafloor significantly worsens climate change

When fishing companies go trawling, an industrial fishing method the involves dragging a fishing net across the seafloor, they wreak havoc on the lives of countless ocean creatures. These ...
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French fishers turn trash into weapons — discarded nets now trap Russian killer drones in Ukraine’s skies

Along the wind-beaten shores of Brittany, France, massive piles of old fishing nets once symbolized waste. From the Depths of ...
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Consultation to consider extending ban on destructive bottom trawling fishing

Destructive bottom trawling fishing, which involves dragging large nets along the seafloor, could be banned across more vulnerable areas of English seas under new Government proposals. Marine and ...
Yahoo

Bottom trawling nets devastate marine habitats, organization warns

Fishing with nets dragged across the seabed is causing serious harm to marine life, according to a report released by the marine conservation organization OceanCare on Wednesday. The practice ...

Carbon emissions from trawler fishing on a par with aviation, say ocean researchers

Trawling of the ocean floor by fishing fleets releases roughly the same amount of carbon emissions into the water as aviation ...
Inhabitat

Bottom trawling contributes more carbon emissions than air travel

The bottom trawling fishing technique is more harmful to the environment than previously thought, according to a new study. While it has long been known that this method captures fish indiscriminately ...
E&E

NOAA ignored trawling impacts on Alaskan seafloor, lawsuit says

NOAA Fisheries violated federal law by allowing corals, sponges and other seafloor habitats in the Gulf of Alaska to be damaged by unchecked bottom trawling, a lawsuit filed Monday by environmental ...
The Conversation

Is sustainable seabed trawling possible? A look at the evidence

Jan Geert Hiddink has received funding from from a range of sources including governments, foundations, nongovernmental organizations, and industries that have interests in conservation, sustainable ...
The Tico Times

President Carlos Alvarado vetoes Costa Rica’s controversial trawling project

President Carlos Alvarado on Friday announced that he has vetoed a project that would have authorized trawl fishing in Costa Rican waters. “It is my responsibility to promote common good, to honor the ...
The Tico Times

Costa Rica lawmakers sink trawling project

A majority of lawmakers this week supported President Carlos Alvarado’s veto of a controversial project that would have authorized trawl fishing in Costa Rican waters. “A large majority of the ...
CNN

The woman saving seahorses from ‘annihilation fishing’

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN initiative in partnership with Rolex. Amanda Vincent is a Rolex Awards Laureate. Every day, thousands of fishing boats around the world drag huge weighted nets ...