Human impacts on the deep seafloor

Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - 05:42 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have for the first time estimated the physical footprint of human activities on the deep seafloor of the North East Atlantic. The findings published in the journal PLoS ONE reveal that the area disturbed by bottom trawling commercial fishing fleets exceeds the combined physical footprint of other major human activities considered...

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