Save our Seabeds
THE SILENT DESTRUCTION
Bottom trawling is a modern industrial practice that involves dragging heavy weighted nets across the sea floor. This indiscriminate method catches much more than the target species, including turtles, rays, dolphins, and anything else in its way. It devastates ancient coral forests, disrupts carbon-storing sediments, and often sweeps the same patches of ocean floor over, and over, leaving them no chance to recover.
90%
Industrial trawlers destroy nearly all deep-sea coral in their path.
43%
CO2 RELEASED
According to a study in 2024, 43% of bottom trawlers catch is unwanted bycatch, and is discarded injured or dead
5.5M km²
5.5 million square kilometres of seafloor is trawled every year, with much of these areas being trawled over, and over again, leaving them no chance to recover.Â
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This are is bigger than Slovenia, Croatia, Latvia, Austria, Portugal, Spain, Lithuania, Great Britan, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Germany, Sweden, Slovakia, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg, Hungary, Cyprus, and Malta all put together.
4.2M
4.2 million tons of unwanted marine life is caught and killed as bycatch annually.