Fishing Vessels Level Seafloor

Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 15:00 in Earth & Climate

Trawlers are smoothing the floor of the Mediterranean Sea, much as farmers flattened fields across Europe centuries ago. And it's likely that similar smoothing is occurring wherever bottom trawlers operate across the Seven Seas. [More]

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