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New hope for a Canadian coral reef damaged by bottom trawl fishing gear

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CBC (Canada)

Publication Date
2018-10-26

Canadian fisheries scientists have discovered a large number of intact colonies of living coral off Cape Breton in a reef complex that had been turned to rubble by decades of bottom trawl fishing gear.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/coral-ocean-fishing-cape-breton-sea-life-1.4878932