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World Oceans Day – The BIG problem with bottom trawling

Bottom trawling is a fishing practice that herds and captures the ‘target species’, like ground fish or crabs, by towing a net along the ocean floor. Fishers use trawls to catch species that live on or close to the seafloor such as cod, hake, shrimp, octopus, mullet, halibut or anglerfish. It also captures a lot of ‘by-catch’, unwanted or non-target fish that are not intended to be caught. Trawling destroys the natural seafloor habitat by essentially rototilling the seabed. All...

World Oceans Day 2024… Awaken New Depths

  “We face one of the greatest threats ever to our blue planet and all its inhabitants: the climate crisis. It is all too clear that we need a healthy ocean for a healthy climate, and vice versa, and we need significantly stronger local, national, and international action from both government and corporate leaders. Now. We have launched a new multi-year action theme: Catalyzing Action for Our Ocean & Climate. By growing the movement through transformative collaboration, we aim to...

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