Seabed trawling’s impact on the climate may be wildly overestimated – new study

Jan Geert Hiddink

Seabed trawling’s impact on the climate may be wildly overestimated – new study

Jan Geert Hiddink

School of Ocean Sciences

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You might remember newspaper articles in 2021 claiming that towing nets over the seabed to catch fish (known as bottom trawling) releases as much carbon as all flights taken each year. It turns out that the assessment behind this claim overestimated how much CO₂ is released in the process of bottom trawling by 100 to 1,000 times.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	The Conversation
Publication status	Published - 5 Jul 2023

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Keywords

seabed trawling
trawling impact
Modelling
Climate

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Choosing best practices for managing impacts of trawl fishing on seabed habitats and biota
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Global analysis of depletion and recovery of seabed biota following bottom trawling disturbance
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Seabed trawling’s impact on the climate may be wildly overestimated – new study

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Quantifying the carbon benefits of ending bottom trawling

Choosing best practices for managing impacts of trawl fishing on seabed habitats and biota

Global analysis of depletion and recovery of seabed biota following bottom trawling disturbance

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