The fillet of flounder sitting on your plate comes with a severe environmental cost. To catch it, a ship running on fossil fuels spewed greenhouse gases as it dragged a trawl net across the seafloor, ...

For the first time, high-resolution cameras have captured the destructive process of bottom trawling as it unfolds beneath the waves — revealing environmental damage that has largely remained hidden ...

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If you liked this story, share it with other people. New research suggests that bottom trawling stirs up large amounts of carbon from the seabed and releases 55-60% of this carbon into the atmosphere ...

CLIMATEWIRE | Dragging giant nets along the seafloor to catch fish — a practice known as bottom trawling — has long been criticized by environmentalists as destructive to underwater ecosystems. Now, ...

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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 ...

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As a cloud of destruction approaches, all the creatures in its path scramble desperately to get out of the way—fleeing for their lives. However fast they go, they can't outpace it. It looms closer and ...

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New research suggests that bottom trawling stirs up large amounts of carbon from the seabed and releases 55-60% of this carbon into the atmosphere within nine years. This amount of carbon is nearly ...