Did you know that bottom trawling is still allowed in some federal marine protected areas (MPAs)? Bottom trawling is the marine equivalent of forest clear-cutting. Like old-growth forests, many ancient ocean ecosystems do not recover from “clear-cutting” for hundreds or thousands of years. In 2019 the Canadian government developed a set of MPA Protection Standards to provide greater consistency and clarity on prohibited activities in federal MPAs to help safeguard areas of our oceans that need p

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