Canada’s Pacific Coast hit hard by trawling, with limited transparency: Report

Mongabay
Jul 14, 2025, 5:57 pm211 ptsTrendingTop
Trawling vessels pursuing fish are damaging marine ecosystems in Canada’s West Coast waters and could be operating illegally in some cases, and yet they work with insufficient transparency, a new report says. Nine large trawlers have together trawled swaths of the ocean collectively larger than the size of…

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