US EditionUK plans to extend its ban on bottom trawling
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UK plans to extend its ban on bottom trawling
What’s going on here? The UK wants to extend its ban on bottom trawling to include a further 41 Marine Protected Areas in English waters covering an area of 30,000km2. Bottom trawling is a particularly destructive fishing method where a cone-shaped net is dragged through the ocean, while maintaining constant contact with the seabed. The largest bottom trawlers can travel across nearly 600 square miles of seabed in one trawl, an area the size of …
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