Halpern, Benjamin S, et al., “Recent Pace of Change in Human Impact on the World’s Ocean.” Scientific reports 9, no. 1 (2019): 11609–8.
A fundamental gap in understanding how humanity is affecting the oceans is our limited knowledge about the pace of change in cumulative impact on ocean ecosystems from expanding human activities. Bottom trawling is not the most damaging activity to the seabed. Climate change, shipping and pollution are far bigger threats to the ocean than fishing.
