Sentences with phrase «dragged along the sea floor»
Even more corals are damaged underwater by fishing activities, with long trenches of corals destroyed by the heavy doors used for trawling activities, as well as from being snagged by long - lines and pot fishing as they're dragged along the sea floor.
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At other sites, boats dragging anchors and nets — or just scraping along the sea floor — have damaged or destroyed reefs.
Trawling for crustaceans burns the most fuel because of the large amounts of engine force required to drag thin - meshed nets along the sea floor.
April 23, 2018 • Using historical data and estimates from deep - sea trawls that drag nets along the ocean floor, researchers estimate that millions of tons of catch have gone unreported in the last 50 years.