Map - High Sea Areas Closed to Bottom Trawling

Screenshot from the map of reas protected from high seas bottom trawling.

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As of July 2006, on the high seas of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, no areas have been closed to deep sea bottom trawlf fishing for the purpose of protecting vulnerable deep sea ecosystems except for four seamounts and a small section of the mid-Atlantic ridge in the North Atlantic.

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