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May 13, 2026
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Bottom trawling is scraping oceans of wildlife
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Hundreds of thousands of bottom trawlers operate all over the world. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Bottom trawling is scraping oceans of wildlife
Published: May 13, 2026 10.51am EDT
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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 questions in fisheries: how many fish species are being caught, and what are they?
In reality, though, bottom trawling is often proceeding blindly.
Bottom trawling is widespread and proble…
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