Oceanocide : published by Claire Nouvian

20 April 2010

Fewer than 300 boats in the world are destroying the deep sea, the largest reservoir of biodiversity on Earth. They are wiping off the map deepwater coral reefs and sponge beds thousands of years old as they chase their lucrative quarry – a few highly priced fish, known to be extremely vulnerable to overfishing because they are long-lived, slow-growing and late at reproducing. The entirety of the deep-sea catch, without exception, is sold to rich industrialized countries that certainly don’t need – nor even really want – those fish. And deep-sea bottom trawling continues despite a scientific consensus that emphasized how utterly and destructive this fishing practice is…