Article on the immense ecological, social and economic costs of bottom trawling. Features research I led with @projectseahorse.bsky.social
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This #WorldOceanDay, we’re calling for greater attention to what bottom trawling catches, what it damages, and what must be protected. https://projectseahorse.org/all-eyes-on-a-healthy-ocean-this-worldoceanday/
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We are delighted to share a painting by Diandra Madeline, inspired by #IconicFishes for #WorldOceanDay. After visiting UBC’s Beaty Biodiversity Museum and learning about the Inspired by #IconicFishes movement, she was inspired to connect art with conservation. https://ow.ly/MuxF50Z93Z5
Really enjoyed the chance to talk. Thank you. Bottom trawling needs all the attention it can get.
This older paper of ours is still of great relevance if you care about bottom trawling in and by China. Please do!
On this #WorldOceansDay, The New York Times uses our research on the diversity of fishes caught in the worlds bottom trawls to argue why it is time to rethink this widespread and problematic fishing practice. @ubcoceans.bsky.social @projectseahorse.bsky.social @amandavincent.bsky.social
Today's @nytimes.com powerful editorial on bottom trawling features our @projectseahorse.bsky.social discovery of >3000 fish species caught in bottom trawls (many of them threatened). May this help end bottom trawling @ubcoceans.bsky.social @sarahjfoster.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/o...
By far the biggest threat to #seahorses is their incidental capture in bottom trawls. As such, seahorses provide an index of the tremendous intensity of bottom trawling. @amandavincent.bsky.social @projectseahorse.bsky.social
theconversation.com/bottom-trawl... via @theconversation.com
Our @projectseahorse.bsky.social team is pushing hard on many bottom trawl research projects. These devastating gears are the biggest threat to seahorses... and to many more species, habitats, selective fisheries & food security. Read more:
projectseahorse.org/limiting-fis...
Bottom trawlers drag giant nets across the ocean floor, releasing stored CO2 and killing up to 75 percent of the marine life unintentionally caught up in the process.
🎥 Watch now: Drawing on more than 20 years of experience with global trade regulations for marine fishes, @amandavincent.bsky.social and @sarahjfoster.bsky.social share insights from three case studies: seahorses, sharks, and humphead wrasse.
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Bottom trawling operates by dragging large, weighted nets across the ocean floor, sweeping up most of the life they encounter along the way and destroying habitats.
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End bottom trawling - the waste of life is a disaster.
Our Director, Dr Amanda Vincent, and Program Leader, Dr Sarah Foster, share how conservation policies move from agreements on paper to action on the ground for marine fishes in a recent talk at the In...
#ThrowbackThursday to our earlier research on China’s bottom trawl fisheries policies (1949–2018). While conservation regulations increased over time, many struggled to be effective. Read more: https://projectseahorse.org/resource/china-policies-bottom-trawl-fisheries/
We talked about this encouraging news on #BBCInsideScience today, with marine biologist and conservationist @amandavincent.bsky.social - if bottom-trawling bans can work in long-impoverished fisheries round Europe, she argues, the effort should work worldwide.
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Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area
Nearly a decade since Scotland established the South Arran Marine Protected Area and banned bottom trawling across much of it, life on the seafloor has thrived, a new study has found
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Nearly a decade since Scotland established the South Arran Marine Protected Area and banned bottom trawling across much of it, life on the seafloor has thrived, a new study has found. Scientists surve...
