Using heavy nets to scrape the ocean floor, bottom trawling is described as being "destructive for both ocean life and the climate," destroying an area of the ocean floor nearly as large as the Amazon rainforest every year. Despite its effects on marine organisms and the environment, the practice still provides over a quarter of fishery catches around the world. Learn more: https://on.natgeo.com/44fuiFj Ocean with David Attenborough is now streaming on Disney and Hulu. | National Geographic

Never-before-seen footage of bottom trawling's devastating effects 🌊 Bottom trawling is a fishing method where large, heavy nets are dragged across the seafloor by one or two boats to catch fish and other marine life that live on or near the bottom. This method was known to destroy sea life and habitats but now a landmark study has found that bottom trawling responsible for injecting up to 370 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year; with trawling in East China, Bal