The need to ban bottom trawling in protected areas was pointed out by Per-Erik Schulze, a marine biologist at the Norwegian Society for Nature Conservation (Naturvernforbundet), in Naturvernforbundet, the NRK news agency reported on March 18. .
Schulze noted that allowing trawling in protected areas seems absurd. According to the biologist, in addition to commercial species, other inhabitants of the sea also end up in the trawl net.
“For example, in the outer Oslo Fjord, trawling is widespread, although it catches everything from fish to valuable bottom animals.”says Schulze.
The Norwegian Society for Nature Conservation believes that bottom trawling destroys the seabed and the basis of life for both fish and the ecosystem as a whole. Naturvernforbundet representatives are calling for a ban on bottom trawling in protected areas such as marine national parks.
“Bottom trawling can be compared to hunting a moose with a bulldozer and at the same time removing all trees, heather, birds and small animals besides the moose,” Naturvernforbundet writes in a press release.the agency reports.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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