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Europe’s Trawlers Extract a Huge ‘Cost to Society’ in Bycatch and Carbon Dioxide

By the time it was dumped on deck, the heaved contents no longer resembled ocean life.  Smashed, and…
#Europe #EU #bottomtrawling #carbondioxide #CO2 #CO2emissions #fishing #ocean #Oceans #trawling
https://www.europesays.com/europe/24601/

Europe’s Trawlers Extract a Huge ‘Cost to Society’ in Bycatch and Carbon Dioxide https://www.byteseu.com/1970854/ #BottomTrawling #CarbonDioxide #CO2 #CO2Emissions #Europe #Fishing #ocean #oceans #trawling

"Proud to be from Jersey." How the exclusion of #trawling & #dredging should allow stocks of lobsters crabs & scallops to recover, & both nature & sustainable fishing to thrive. More such protection please!
Freddie Watson, 3min40:
https://www.bluemarinefoundation.com/interview-jerseys-new-marine-protected-areas/

#MarineProtectedArea #Jersey #fisheries

"Proud to be from Jersey." How the exclusion of #trawling & #dredging should allow stocks of lobsters crabs & scallops to recover, & both nature & sustainable fishing to thrive. More such protection please!
Freddie Watson, 3min40:
https://www.bluemarinefoundation.com/interview-jerseys-new-marine-protected-areas/

#MarineProtectedArea #Jersey #fisheries

Lord Howe Rise deep-sea coral ‘proof’ ramps up bottom trawling clash https://www.byteseu.com/1843172/ #Ancient #bottom #clash #Coral #deepsea #dragging #environmentalists #extensive #Fishing #groundbreaking #have #howe #lord #Nets #NewZealand #Pacific #Proof #RAMPS #rise #seafloor #South #systems #they #trawling #up #vessels #where #zealand

large #trawling phishing campaign targeting ukraine domains ukremail[.]com, ua-gov[.]info b6480aa6c364715a21ba28c4d26a5b6e

3-Oct-2025
Unique videos show how #trawling restrictions brings back life to the sea

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1100643

#science #ecology #marineBiology #conservation #fisheries #seafloor

"Oceans with David Attenborough" is now on my must watch list, and I strongly recommend it be added to yours.

"the camera follows the chains of a bottom trawling net to the ocean floor. In the blue-green murk, it is a scene from a horror movie."

“It smashes its way across the seabed, destroying nearly everything in its path..."

#Attenborough’s new film is bringing audiences to tears, and one voice has gone silent in its wake: the global fishing industry.

Bottom #trawling is indefensible.

#Ocean #OceanFilm #BanBottomTrawling
#Ocean #Ecosystems

https://archive.ph/V95gR

How #DavidAttenborough's #film will get #bottomtrawling #banned
🧐"bottom #trawlers hv been working at #sea for more than a century, but nobody had ever seen tis scene before. No diver wld survive where te #cameras were.. It is a nightmare vision of #massdeath & #destruction..
The worst of it is tt while the #official #UN goal is to have 30% of the world’s #oceans in ‘maritime protected areas’ by 2030, most of those #MPAs still allow #bottom #trawling."
#filmastodon #UNSDG
https://www.saltwire.com/newfoundland-labrador/gwynne-dyer-how-david-attenboroughs-film-will-get-bottom-trawling-banned

How #DavidAttenborough's #film will get #bottomtrawling #banned
🧐"bottom #trawlers hv been working at #sea for more than a century, but nobody had ever seen tis scene before. No diver wld survive where te #cameras were.. It is a nightmare vision of #massdeath & #destruction..
The worst of it is tt while the #official #UN goal is to have 30% of the world’s #oceans in ‘maritime protected areas’ by 2030, most of those #MPAs still allow #bottom #trawling."
#filmastodon #UNSDG
https://www.saltwire.com/newfoundland-labrador/gwynne-dyer-how-david-attenboroughs-film-will-get-bottom-trawling-banned

How #DavidAttenborough's #film will get #bottomtrawling #banned
🧐"bottom #trawlers hv been working at #sea for more than a century, but nobody had ever seen tis scene before. No diver wld survive where te #cameras were.. It is a nightmare vision of #massdeath & #destruction..
The worst of it is tt while the #official #UN goal is to have 30% of the world’s #oceans in ‘maritime protected areas’ by 2030, most of those #MPAs still allow #bottom #trawling."
#filmastodon #UNSDG
https://www.saltwire.com/newfoundland-labrador/gwynne-dyer-how-david-attenboroughs-film-will-get-bottom-trawling-banned

How #DavidAttenborough's #film will get #bottomtrawling #banned
🧐"bottom #trawlers hv been working at #sea for more than a century, but nobody had ever seen tis scene before. No diver wld survive where te #cameras were.. It is a nightmare vision of #massdeath & #destruction..
The worst of it is tt while the #official #UN goal is to have 30% of the world’s #oceans in ‘maritime protected areas’ by 2030, most of those #MPAs still allow #bottom #trawling."
#filmastodon #UNSDG
https://www.saltwire.com/newfoundland-labrador/gwynne-dyer-how-david-attenboroughs-film-will-get-bottom-trawling-banned

How #DavidAttenborough's #film will get #bottomtrawling #banned
🧐"bottom #trawlers hv been working at #sea for more than a century, but nobody had ever seen tis scene before. No diver wld survive where te #cameras were.. It is a nightmare vision of #massdeath & #destruction..
The worst of it is tt while the #official #UN goal is to have 30% of the world’s #oceans in ‘maritime protected areas’ by 2030, most of those #MPAs still allow #bottom #trawling."
#filmastodon #UNSDG
https://www.saltwire.com/newfoundland-labrador/gwynne-dyer-how-david-attenboroughs-film-will-get-bottom-trawling-banned

#trawling #Ocean #DavidAttenborough #NationalGeographic #DisneyPlus
"Ocean with David Attenborough airs Sunday 8 June at 8 pm on National Geographic and streams the same day on Disney+, and is available in select cinemas now."

Ocean with David Attenborough | Never-Before-Seen Bottom Trawling Footage | National Geographic
https://youtu.be/KkD8itD9mbo?si=XtZQXxE5AvpB9SAU

#trawling #Ocean #DavidAttenborough #NationalGeographic #DisneyPlus
"Ocean with David Attenborough airs Sunday 8 June at 8 pm on National Geographic and streams the same day on Disney+, and is available in select cinemas now."

“This Hit Me In The Guts”: World-First Footage Shows Fish Swimming For Their Lives As Trawlers Close In

“This is something that doesn't have to happen in our marine protected areas. It could end tomorrow, if we choose it to, and it would be...".
https://www.iflscience.com/devastating-impact-of-trawling-revealed-in-world-first-footage-of-marine-animals-fleeing-nets-79370

Devastating Impact Of #Trawling Revealed In World-First Footage Of Marine Animals Fleeing Nets
“This is something that doesn't have to happen in our #marineprotectedareas. It could end tomorrow, if we choose it to, and it would be to the benefit of every living thing on the planet,” director Toby Nowlan told IFLScience.
"This hit me in the guts. Being at the level of the net and seeing all these poor creatures trying to escape the net."-Enric Sala
https://www.iflscience.com/devastating-impact-of-trawling-revealed-in-world-first-footage-of-marine-animals-fleeing-nets-79370
https://archive.ph/2vAQm

World-First Footage Shows The Devastating Impact Of Trawling As It’s Happening https://www.iflscience.com/world-first-footage-shows-the-devastating-impact-of-trawling-as-its-happening-79168

#ocean #environment #ships #fishing #trawling #BanBottomTrawling

Dramatic Footage Captures the Impact of Bottom Trawling on the Ocean Floor https://petapixel.com/2025/05/12/dramatic-footage-captures-the-impact-of-bottom-trawling-on-the-ocean-floor/ #nationalgeographic #davidattenborough #naturedocumentary #trawling #fishing #natgeo #News

“After almost 100 years on the planet, I now understand the most important place on Earth is not on land, but at sea,”
-- Sir David Attenborough

This bloke is not only a Legend but is a genuine Global Treasure.

https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/at-99-david-attenborough-shares-strongest-message-for-the-ocean/
“If we save the ocean, we save ourselves,” says Sir David who this weekend admitted in an exclusive interview with The Times that he “won’t get to see the ocean’s recovery and restoration” but that the ‘young children seen playing on the beach today’ very well may do. At the very least, they will get to witness “perhaps the most consequential time for the human species in the past 10,000 years.”

*This glorious bloke plants many trees for distant children to shelter and pause under.*

#Ocean #Earth #Climate #Water #Hope

#Trawling has "history" stretching back to (at least) the fourteenth century. (apparently) By 1600 it was widespread and practiced large distances from shore.

Attempts have been made to control its damage since the #Tudors

Attenborough at 99: naturalist ‘goes further than before’ to speak out against industrial fishing in new film - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/01/ocean-david-attenborough-trawling-fishing-industry-film-documentary "The celebrated presenter warns of ‘modern day colonialism at sea’ as he highlights the destruction caused by #overfishing and bottom #trawling" a true hero; UK gov should listen

Bottom trawling in European waters costs society up to €11bn a year, new study finds.

A first-of-its-kind study released today found that this cost is largely due to carbon dioxide emissions from disturbed sediments on the seafloor.

The study is the first to measure the full economic cost of bottom trawling in European waters - including the EU, UK, Norway and Iceland.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250325-bottom-trawling-in-european-waters-costs-society-up-to-11bn-a-year-new-study-finds?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Seabed #CarbonEmissions #Carbon #Trawling #Sea #Ocean #Fishing #Europe #EU #UK #Norway #Iceland

@futurebird this is also a problem in #Norway. Nobody's talking about the over #fishing or the #trawling off the coast that is destroying reefs, or even the fish farms in #Norwegian #fjords that are dumping massive amounts of #antibiotics into the water - because fish farms are havens for bacteria and viruses.

But some Spanish or Portuguese boats come up to take away quota from Norwegian companies? RABBLE, RABBLE, RABBLE!

People are greedy idiots sometimes.

NGOs take legal action against the Netherlands’ North Sea bottom trawling https://www.endseurope.com/article/1901769/ngos-legal-action-against-netherlands-north-sea-bottom-trawling #MPAs #Trawling #Netherlands

NGOs take legal action against the Netherlands’ North Sea bottom trawling https://www.endseurope.com/article/1901769/ngos-legal-action-against-netherlands-north-sea-bottom-trawling #MPAs #Trawling #Netherlands

NGOs take legal action against the Netherlands’ North Sea bottom trawling https://www.endseurope.com/article/1901769/ngos-legal-action-against-netherlands-north-sea-bottom-trawling #MPAs #Trawling #Netherlands

NGOs take legal action against the Netherlands’ North Sea bottom trawling https://www.endseurope.com/article/1901769/ngos-legal-action-against-netherlands-north-sea-bottom-trawling #MPAs #Trawling #Netherlands

NGOs take legal action against the Netherlands’ North Sea bottom trawling https://www.endseurope.com/article/1901769/ngos-legal-action-against-netherlands-north-sea-bottom-trawling #MPAs #Trawling #Netherlands

24-Oct-2024
When we disturb the seabed, we get more #carbonDioxide and increase the risk of oxygen depletion
A new study from Aarhus University shows that disturbances of the seabed from #trawling equipment and #dredging can lead to a series of negative consequences for both the marine #environment and the global ecosystem.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1062523 #science #ClimateCatastrophe #SeaFloor #ocean #MarineBiology

24-Oct-2024
When we disturb the seabed, we get more #carbonDioxide and increase the risk of oxygen depletion
A new study from Aarhus University shows that disturbances of the seabed from #trawling equipment and #dredging can lead to a series of negative consequences for both the marine #environment and the global ecosystem.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1062523 #science #ClimateCatastrophe #SeaFloor #ocean #MarineBiology

24-Oct-2024
When we disturb the seabed, we get more #carbonDioxide and increase the risk of oxygen depletion
A new study from Aarhus University shows that disturbances of the seabed from #trawling equipment and #dredging can lead to a series of negative consequences for both the marine #environment and the global ecosystem.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1062523 #science #ClimateCatastrophe #SeaFloor #ocean #MarineBiology

24-Oct-2024
When we disturb the seabed, we get more #carbonDioxide and increase the risk of oxygen depletion
A new study from Aarhus University shows that disturbances of the seabed from #trawling equipment and #dredging can lead to a series of negative consequences for both the marine #environment and the global ecosystem.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1062523 #science #ClimateCatastrophe #SeaFloor #ocean #MarineBiology

24-Oct-2024
When we disturb the seabed, we get more #carbonDioxide and increase the risk of oxygen depletion
A new study from Aarhus University shows that disturbances of the seabed from #trawling equipment and #dredging can lead to a series of negative consequences for both the marine #environment and the global ecosystem.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1062523 #science #ClimateCatastrophe #SeaFloor #ocean #MarineBiology

Global fisheries must change to avoid ocean collapse, study says

https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2024/09/global-fisheries-must-change-to-avoid-ocean-collapse-study-says/

“We expect the ocean to continue to perform vital ecosystem functions, like producing clean water and taking carbon out from the atmosphere and storing it in sediments,” he said. “But these are things that only can be guaranteed from healthy marine ecosystems. And what fishing is doing is destroying those ecosystems.”

#Fisheries #Ocean #Collapse #Study #bycatch #Ecocide #Trawling #actions #scientists

Greece becomes first European country to ban bottom #trawling in marine parks - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/16/greece-becomes-first-european-country-to-ban-bottom-trawling-in-marine-parks "The law will come into force in national parks within two years and in all of the country’s marine protected areas by 2030" well done, greece, others must follow

#trawling the beat

Overfishing.org contained both an introduction to the issue of #overfishing, and #teaching resources. See attached some evergreens (low resolution, DM me for high res).

There's the "what, why, how" #infographic, #satellite imagery of #BottomTrawling in the Dutch #Waddensea #environment, and a poster with #trawling all around the world.

As I'm #sad to see the website go I've renewed the #domain for one more year and am happy to "donate" it to a good cause. Any interest: DM me.

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#ocean #sea

MPAs bottom towed fishing gear bylaw - UK https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/marine-protected-areas-bottom-towed-fishing-gear-byelaw-2023 #MPAs #Trawling #Uk

New Zealand backtracks on ocean protection and lobbies for more bottom trawling https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/nz-backtracks-on-south-pacific-ocean-protection-lobbies-for-more-bottom-trawling/ #Oceans #Trawling #NewZealand

#SeaShepherd Global has released footage and images of large industrial #krill #supertrawlers, once again #trawling in large pods of #whales off the #Antarctic Peninsula.
100 per cent of #Australian pharmacies surveyed carried krill oil products from the Antarctic and that Biomar, a #fish feed producer in Wesley Vale, #Tasmania, used up to 1200 tons of krill meal per year. This is the equivalent of 1 billion individual krill. #fishfarming #sustainability

https://www.echo.net.au/2024/01/krill-supertrawlers-found-trawling-through-whale-pods-in-antarctic/

Climate impact of industrial fisheries investigated in first-of-its kind study https://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/news/climate-impact-of-industrial-fisheries-investigated-in-first-of-its-kind-study/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #fisheries #fishing #maritimeemissions #trawling

Seabed #trawling found to be a major source of global #CO2 #emissions
Bottom trawling, a controversial and destructive #fishing technique, releases large amounts of #carbondioxide from the seabed – and much of this #gas gets into the #atmosphere

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2412752-seabed-trawling-found-to-be-a-major-source-of-global-co2-emissions/

" #Carbon released by bottom #trawling ‘too big to ignore’, says study - #Fishing nets churn up carbon from the #sea floor, more than half of which will eventually be released into the #atmosphere ... Now, for the first time, researchers have calculated just how much trawling releases into the atmosphere: 370m tonnes of planet-heating #CarbonDioxide a year – an amount, they say, that is “too big to ignore”.

There seems to still be a wide range of estimates as to how serious this problem is for the #ClimateCrisis in the scheme of things, but given that this is a *very* conservative estimate, because this and the previous study only rely on fishing vessels which report their positions and are tracked, which account for merely 25% - the remaining 75% is a horrid "dark fleet". Regardless, this is an ongoing epic disaster for the #biosphere an #oceans - "“We have long known that dragging heavy fishing nets – some as large as 10 747 jets – across the ocean floor destroys sea life and habitats,” said Dr Trisha Atwood, an aquatic ecologist at Utah State University and National Geographic’s Pristine Seas." Bottom line (sorry for the pun) - #CommercialFishing is anything but a sustainable industry.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/18/carbon-released-by-bottom-trawling-too-big-to-ignore-says-study

#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #CO2 #GlobalWarming #Klima #Klimakrise #Fishing

PAST: research fellowship in 2023 at Zoological Station of Naples @szndohrn working 4 the Rete 3 Golfi project in #Palermo (Sicily), contributing to ecosystem-based monitoring of 3 Sicilian gulfs by taking part in bottom #trawling expeditions & processing samples in lab.

Check the Rete 3 Golfi profiles:
https://www.facebook.com/rete3golfi/
https://www.instagram.com/rete3golfi/

#WorthAWatch
'Our Lives: Our Sea Forest
7.30pm, BBC One
Hopeful environmental stories are few and far between these days, which makes this short film – about the recovery of a #Sussex #kelp forest that was destroyed by #trawling – so special. It is hard not to feel emotional as Eric Smith, a 74-year-old #freediver recalls the “garden of Eden” he helped to #rewild with his daughter, restoring a vital marine #ecosystem Hollie Richardson'

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/sep/08/tv-tonight-one-mans-deeply-emotional-story-about-saving-a-kelp-forest
#ClimateCrisis #Environment

BREAKING

We're at the Ministry for Primary Industries in Auckland with a net full of 'bycatch'.

We're rebranding them as the Ministry of Destructive Fishing after yesterday's announcement that bottom trawling will continue in the Hauraki Gulf.

It's time to ban bottom trawling!

#greenpeace #newzealand #nzpol #oceans #haurakiGulf #dolphins #fishing #trawling

I'm calling on @Stuart_NashMP to help protect the #HaurakiGulf by banning bottom #trawling https://greenpeace.nz/nzh23q #BanBottomTrawling via @greenpeacenz