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🎣 Bottom trawling destroys ocean life, often beyond repair. Research shows that just a single bottom trawl tow can reduce the abundance of marine animals in an area by an average of 55%. For vulnerable invertebrates, that number jumps to a 68% loss in one pass of a bottom trawling net. But it doesn’t end there… Some deep-sea habitats may never recover from bottom trawling damage. In one case study, even after 15 years of closure, benthic communities on seamounts show little to no signs of recov