Study co-authored by Halifax marine biologist reveals fishing’s startling global footprint
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Global fishing efforts are so wide ranging that fleets covered more than 460 million kilometres in 2016 – a distance equal to going to the moon and back 600 times.
That startling revelation is contained in a newly published study in Science that quantifies fishing’s global footprint for the first time.