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History Channel: Ed Leedskalnin
Submitted by cybe on August 23, 2007 - 14:07Bulldozing the Bottom of the Sea
Submitted by cybe on June 4, 2006 - 23:00It is a wonderfully clear expression, used by a U. S. biologist about the impact of bottom trawling. "Imagine using a bulldozer to catch songbirds for food — that's what it's like," marine biologist Sylvia Earle says. "After a trawler has gone by, it looks like a superhighway, it's just flat. Nobody's home. A few fish may swim in and out but the residents, those that occupy the substrate, they're just smothered, they're crushed. It's like paving them over."
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