Bottom trawling is scraping oceans of wildlife

Bottom trawlers extract one-quarter of the world’s fisheries catches by weight and raise significant ecological, economic and ...
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Lawsuit is latest push to curb bottom trawling in protected European waters

The fishing practice of bottom trawling continues in European marine protected areas (MPAs) despite conservation concerns over its destruction of seabed habitats and indiscriminate catches. Four NGOs ...