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This week, it's A Clean Sweep? written by Kate Evans and published in New Zealand Geographic's January/February 2023 issue.
You can find the entire article, with photos from Richard Robinson, on the New Zealand Geographic website.
Every year, New Zealand vessels drag trawl gear across nearly 100,000 square kilometres of our seafloor. We are the only nation still trawling on the high seas of the South Pacific. Can we make bottom trawling better? Or should we ban it altogether?
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