Deep-Sea Fish 'Plundered' to Extinction by Trawling

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by Ian Herbert

Fish stocks in international waters are being plundered to the point of extinction because governments are failing to protect them, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has warned.

Species including tuna and the orange roughy are among those under threat by illegal fishing and the notorious practice of bottom-trawling, by which heavy rollers are dragged over the ocean floor, trapping fish and mammals and destroying entire ecosystems.