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Fish trawling reshapes deep-sea canyons

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Nature

Publication Date
2012-09-06

Deep-sea trawling smoothes out the wrinkles of canyons on the continental slope, making marine mountainsides look more like ploughed fields, changing the habitat of deep-sea creatures.

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http://www.nature.com/news/fish-trawling-reshapes-deep-sea-canyons-1.11356