BBC: Prawn fishing ‘plundering seas’
“Trawling for prawns is hugely wasteful, conservationists say, and threatens other marine creatures with devastation.
They say prawn trawlers kill 150,000 marine turtles a year, and also large numbers of seahorses.
They want consumers not to buy prawns until supermarkets can prove they have been caught without harming the environment and local communities.”
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“The report’s main findings include:
* trawlers catch up to 20 kilograms of other species for every one kg of prawns they take
* they are responsible for one-third of the world’s discarded catch, although they produce less than 2% of global seafood
* local fish catches can decline sharply in areas where trawlers operate
* the trawls cause significant damage to seabed life.”
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