Seabed trawling’s impact on the climate may be wildly overestimated – new study
Seabed trawling’s impact on the climate may be wildly overestimated – new study: Anney_Lier/Shutterstock You might remember newspaper articles in 2021 claiming that towing nets over the seabed to catch fish (known as bottom trawling) releases as much carbon as all flights taken each year. It turns out that the assessment behind this claim overestimated …