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Shares David Attenborough's View on Bottom Trawling

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"If you go to sensitive areas like coral reefs, you see a tremendous impact," says Steinunn Hilma Ólafsdóttir, a marine biologist at the Marine Research Institute, about bottom trawling. Iceland has a diverse coral reef. Only three species form coral reefs here, but in total about eighty species of coral have been found. Bottom trawling was given a hard time in a new documentary by British journalist David Attenborough about the ocean. Steinunn …
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"If you go to sensitive areas like coral reefs, you see a tremendous impact," says Steinunn Hilma Ólafsdóttir, a marine biologist at the Marine Research Institute, about bottom trawling. Iceland has a diverse coral reef. Only three species form coral reefs here, but in total about eighty species of coral have been found. Bottom trawling was given a hard time in a new documentary by British journalist David Attenborough about the ocean. Steinunn …

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RÚV broke the news in on Thursday, September 18, 2025.
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