One is a proposal now before the United Nations that would end unregulated bottom trawling on the high seas...

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Destructive fishing methods have been used on the rich fauna of seamounts for several years now, including bottom trawling.

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But even in Canada some old salts loathe bottom trawling like Wayne Eddy, a 62-year-old independent fisherman from Nova Scotia.

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Then in 2005 a Greenpeace report accused the company of encouraging bottom trawling, a powerful fishing method that damages ocean ecosystems, with its purchase agreements.

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Bottom trawling, which involves raking the ocean floor for food on a huge scale, leaves behind wastelands where there had been complex ecosystems.

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Conducted by bottom trawling, it results in more than eighty per cent bycatch, and countless plants and corals have been uprooted and dumped overboard.

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Bottom trawling certainly doesn't sound nice.

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Bottom-trawling's knock-on impacts are best illustrated by the plight of the deep-sea fish, the orange roughy (also known as slimeheads) whose populations have been reduced by more than 90%, according to marine scientists.

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Campaigners, with the support of marine scientists, have repeatedly tried to persuade countries to agree to an international ban, arguing that the indiscriminate nature of bottom-trawling is causing irreversible damage to coral reefs and slow-growing fish species, which can take decades to reach maturity and are therefore slow to replenish their numbers.

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