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Bottom trawling is ecologically destructive and should be banned says coalition mongabay.com November 14, 2006
Apparently the U.N. agrees. Wednesday the world organization published a summary of a draft report that calls for discussions on a trawling moratorium. Several countries responsible for much of the world's trawling, Spain, Japan and Iceland, have opposed a new moratorium and on November 13th, 2006 European Union, Russia, and South Korea blocked an effort to regulate deep sea fishing and bottom trawling over a large part of the South Pacific. The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition criticized these countries in a statement.
The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition says that deep water coral reefs can live for eight thousand years, while deep-sea fish like orange roughy are slow to reproduce making recovery from over-fishing difficult. "The scientific community has expressed real concern over the damage to deep sea life from bottom trawl fishing, including the risk of species extinctions," said Duncan Currie, spokesperson for the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition. This article is based on a news release from the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition. Recommend this article? Comments? >Digg this article | >Hugg this article | Contact News options
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