Editing Bottom trawling (section)

===Deep sea damage===
[[File:Results of trawling.png|thumb|right|(A) The coral community and seabed on an untrawled seamount. (B) The exposed bedrock of a trawled seamount. Both are {{ Convert | 1,000–2,000 | m }} below the surface.]]

The [[Secretary General of the United Nations]] reported in 2006 that 95 percent of damage to [[seamount]] ecosystems worldwide is caused by [[deep sea]] bottom trawling.<ref>Report of the Secretary-General (2006) [https://www.un.org/Depts/los/general_assembly/documents/impact_of_fishing.pdf ''The Impacts of Fishing on Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems'']. [[United Nations]]. Retrieved on 10 August 2008</ref><ref>Reed JK, Koenig CC, Shepard AN, and Gilmore Jr RG (2007) {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100104131308/http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/7004 ''Long Term Monitoring of a Deep-water Coral Reef: Effects of Bottom Trawling'']}} Twenty-sixth annual Scientific Diving Symposium. Retrieved on 10 August 2008</ref> A study published in ''[[Current Biology]]'' suggests a cutoff of {{convert|600|m|ft}} is a point which ecological damage increases significantly.<ref>{{Cite news|title = Drawing the line|url = https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21663195-when-regulating-fishing-it-always-helps-have-data-drawing-line|newspaper = The Economist|access-date = 2015-09-18|issn = 0013-0613}}</ref>