“Just received this via email. If your a scientist please go sign.
Hi folks,
I am sending you this special plea to ask for your help in limiting the use of bottom trawls in the deep sea. We know from more than 250 research papers that bottom trawling is easily the most habitat destructive method of fishing the world has ever seen, and now bottom trawls are being used on seamounts and selected areas of the continental slope. The European Parliament has before it a bill that would require all deep sea fishing vessels in the EU to change to some other gear over the next two years. Money is being made available to help this happen. And all the fish currently being caught can be caught with bottom hooks on a long line. Telmo Morato in the Azores has shown that it takes about 260 sets of bottom hooks to bring up the same about of bycatch as one bottom trawl. So there are good reasons to phase out bottom trawling.”
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Fonte: Deep Sea News – 24 de junho de 2013
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