The practice of bottom trawling, which involves dragging heavy nets across the ocean floor, has recently been identified as a major source of carbon emissions into the atmosphere..
A new study reveals that the marine act of ‘bottom trawling’ is responsible for injecting up to 370 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year.
Scientists have discovered a hitherto unrecognized source of atmospheric carbon emissions: bottom trawling. Their findings were published in Frontiers in Marine Science.
Nearly a quarter of the world’s wild-caught seafood is scooped up by bottom trawlers, fishing vessels that drag heavy nets over the seafloor. These boats fish the world over and support numerous global seafood supply chains. Yet critics have dogged them as environmentally unfriendly. Conservation experts say they can damage sensitive marine ecosystems, like deep-sea […]