Quote: "Ocean bulldozers" - enormous nets weighed down with rollers - scrape the ocean floor
Monday, July 18, 2011 at 12:03AM
Dr. John in Ocean / Water, Oceana, Ted Danson, Terra, ocean bulldozers, trawlers

I mentioned earlier that those rollers have the power to push aside twenty-five-ton boulders. They pulverize everything in their path, crushing deep coral, grinding boulders to rubble, wiping out populations of old fish and other creatures, which will take generations to recover, and leave behind a flat, lifeless moonscape of gravel and sand.

Ted Danson with Michael D'Orso
Oceana 

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