20 billion dollars a year are spent on subsidising overfishing on an industrial scale every year.

David Attenborough

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#trawlers

"The idea of bulldozing through a pristine rainforest causes outrage, yet we do the equivalent underwater thousands of times a day."

David Attenborough

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#trawlers
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The aftermath of a bottom trawler pass

"Like swimming from the Garden of Eden to nuclear winter."

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Bulldozing ocean bottom by the trawlers disturbes the sediment, which releases vast amounts of carbon dioxide, which contributes to #ClimateChange.

The still picture capture does not give justice to the unimaginable horror.

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#trawlers

#trawlers should be banned.

It's #ecocide.

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