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

Inside Climate News · By Johnny Sturgeon · last updated
Bottom trawlers drag giant nets across the ocean floor, releasing stored CO2 and killing up to 75 percent of the marine life unintentionally caught up in the process.

By Johnny Sturgeon

By the time it was dumped on deck, the heaved contents no longer resembled ocean life.