Will new bottom trawling rules do enough to protect South Pacific seamounts?

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Will new bottom trawling rules do enough to protect South Pacific seamounts?

Environmental advocates have long called for a ban on bottom trawling on seamounts in the South Pacific’s international waters, and they hoped one would finally be instituted at a regional meeting in Manta, Ecuador, in February. But the trawling, which has declined in scale over the last decade, will be permitted to go on. Bottom […]