Bottom- Trawling is the way commercial fisherman catch many types of fish in the masses. Bottom- Trawling effects the ocean floor the same way the rain forest is clear-cutted. Elliot Norse, president of the Marine Conservation Biology Institute, says, "Scientists find that bottom-trawling is the largest disturbance to the world's sea floor and possibly the largest human-caused disturbance to the biosphere."
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Commercial fishing adversely affects the environment. In fact, it's wreaking havoc on our oceans. As a result of commercial fishing, 90 percent of large fish populations have been exterminated in the past 50 years, and a report published in the academic journal Science estimates that by the year 2048, our oceans will have been entirely depleted.
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