Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬#BottomTrawling is scraping #oceans of wildlife
Gears operate by dragging large weighted nets across the #ocean floor (some as wide as a 45-story building is tall), sweeping up most of the life they encounter along the way and destroying habitat.
Hundreds of thousands of #bottomtrawlers operate all over the world, often dependent on #subsidies, implicated in human rights violations and exacerbating #climatechange.
https://theconversation.com/bottom-trawling-is-scraping-oceans-of-wildlife-280780 #fish #fishing #bycatch
Gears operate by dragging large weighted nets across the #ocean floor (some as wide as a 45-story building is tall), sweeping up most of the life they encounter along the way and destroying habitat.
Hundreds of thousands of #bottomtrawlers operate all over the world, often dependent on #subsidies, implicated in human rights violations and exacerbating #climatechange.
https://theconversation.com/bottom-trawling-is-scraping-oceans-of-wildlife-280780 #fish #fishing #bycatch
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