The day before World Oceans Day, Greenpeace reveals the shocking fact that every four seconds marine life, in an area of ocean floor the size of ten football fields, is wiped out by high seas bottom trawlers. Volunteers, in true football style, raised their shirts and had 'S C O R E 4 O C E A N S' painted on their stomachs in a football pitch to highlight the enormity of bottom-trawling by comparing the 100 metre nets actually used to a real sized football field.
07 June 2006
Haarlem Netherlands

The day before World Oceans Day, Greenpeace reveals the shocking fact that every four seconds marine life, in an area of ocean floor the size of ten football fields, is wiped out by high seas bottom trawlers. Volunteers, in true football style, raised their shirts and had 'S C O R E 4 O C E A N S' painted on their stomachs in a football pitch to highlight the enormity of bottom-trawling by comparing the 100 metre nets actually used to a real sized football field.

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