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Sea beds take years to recover from bottom trawling

Huge impact of fishing on invertebrate life quantified.
Many of the fish caught around the world are obtained by trawling the sea floor.

Many of the fish caught around the world are obtained by trawling the sea floor. Kambou Sia/AFP/Getty

Trawling the bottom of the ocean can strip up to 41% of invertebrate life from the sea bed, and ocean floors can take more than six years to recover.

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Nature 547, 383 (2017)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-017-01682-8

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