Blogposts tagged 'High Seas'

Bottom trawling - strip-mining the seas

Posted by darren - 7 June 2006 at 11:57am - 0 Comments

Wanton destruction: bycatch trawled on the Dogger Bank, North Sea, August 2004

Greenpeace calls for global marine reserves on World Oceans Day

As the kick-off to the football world cup approaches, how's this for a key pre-match statistic? Every four seconds, marine life in an area of ocean floor the size of ten football fields is wiped out by high seas bottom trawlers.

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