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Through disturbing the sediment on the sea floor - the world's largest carbon sink - bottom trawling is thought to release a similar amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as the aviation industryg. Credit - https://thefishsite.com/
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Funding the establishment of Marine Protection Areas (MPAs) – thus protecting them from activity by bottom-trawling vessels – could form an innovative new type of carbon credit scheme. So argue researchers from the National Geographic Society, in a newly published paper, which looks into the possible advantages – from biodiversity, fisheries management and climate change mitigation perspectives – of establishing more MPAs.

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