Source: Treehugger

The environmental impacts of trawling are many. The large nets that are dragged behind boats to collect fish often snap free or are turned loose when holes develop and become bobbing “ghost nets” in the sea. These loose nets continue to catch marine animals that get entangled in them and die.

Larger marine animal populations with longer reproductive cycles like sharks, dolphins, whales and sea turtles, are the most aversely affected.

Even once the nets fall to the sea floor and start to break down, the nets contribute to the plastic pollution soup that plagues the ocean. It seems like it’s time to design a better fishing net.

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