Corals Discovery Leads to Call for Ban of Bottom Trawling
SUMMARY The surprise discovery of cold-water soft corals sparked an ambitious seafloor habitat-mapping project that drove Denmark to propose a ban on seafloor habitat destructive fishery with beam, a…
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