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Europe's seafloor fishing looks profitable until societal costs turn the math upside down (phys.org)
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Pooling data from more than 4,900 European-flagged bottom trawlers—together spending more than 5.5 million hours fishing on average each year in the waters of the European Union, the UK, Norway and Iceland—the research demonstrates that atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from disturbed seafloor sediments are a major contributor to these costs. The study concludes that the net costs of bottom trawling to society are 90 times greater than the €180 million in profits raked in by the fishing industry each year.

"Our study makes it clear that bottom trawling in European waters is not just an environmental disaster, it's an economic failure," said Professor Enric Sala, National Geographic Explorer in Residence and one of the authors of the study, titled "The value of bottom trawling in Europe."

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[–] 5 points 6 months ago

Protected area but these kinds of activities. I'm confused. Allowing that is the opposite of protection.

I wonder how the subsidies compare to those for more healthy fishing. Current seems like a tragedy.

Good to read about phase out, but even now four more years seems quite long. I guess it's a matter of which side you look at it from.

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    [–] [S] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    2% of the animal protein consumed in all of Europe […] provides an estimated social value of €2.46 billion per year.

    Sooo that shouldn’t have been a positive offset against the environmental harm done fishe

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    [–] [S] 3 points 6 months ago

    2% of the animal protein consumed in all of Europe […] provides an estimated social value of €2.46 billion per year.

    Sooo that shouldn’t have been a positive offset against the environmental harm done fishe

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    [–] [S] 2 points 6 months ago

    2% of the animal protein consumed in all of Europe […] provides an estimated social value of €2.46 billion per year.

    Sooo that shouldn’t have been a positive offset against the environmental harm done fishe

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    [–] [S] 3 points 2 days ago

    2% of the animal protein consumed in all of Europe […] provides an estimated social value of €2.46 billion per year.

    Sooo that shouldn’t have been a positive offset against the environmental harm done fishe

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