Bottom trawl damage visible from space
Published May 16th, 2007 in the oceans Tags: bottom trawling, space. Scoopit Share it del.icio.us |Digg it |Furl |Netscape |reddit |StumbleUpon | Scoopit
If there’s any more evidence needed that bottom trawling the ocean floor is an abhorrent practise - this should be enoug … THE DAMAGE IS VISIBLE FROM SPACE!!
From Grist: To you, this picture may look like ants marching in a desert, but among ocean experts, it has gone as viral as Britneys shaved head. What you’re seeing is an image of shrimp trawlers off the coast of China, taken from space. Those teeny tiny specs are responsible for destroying huge swaths of seafloor, and thanks to these images, which appeared in the prestigious journal Nature yesterday, scientists now have irrefutable visual evidence to prove what they could only conceptualise before. [ read more ]
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