"Effective seabed carbon protection requires region-specific assessments that identify and prioritise habitats with high burial potential, alongside ecological and fisheries factors, rather than blanket trawling bans or uniform effort reductions."
@franciscoblaha.bsky.socialWe should not stop insisting that seabed carbon protection, important as it is, cannot and must not be used as an excuse to avoid the primary climate imperative: stopping fossil carbon emissions into the atmosphere.
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Beyond the Ban: Rethinking Bottom Trawling and Seabed Carbon — Francisco Blaha
The debate over bottom trawling's impacts on seabed carbon has intensified recently. Policymakers and environmental advocates often paint the issue in stark terms: bottom trawls disturb the seafloor, ...