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Bottom trawling is scraping oceans of wildlife

  • May 13, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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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 social concerns. Given that, you'd think there would be an answer to basic questions in fisheries: how many fish species are being caught, and what are they?

Originally published at Phys.org

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