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druidity33

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4. Well I'm not sure

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Sat Mar 7, 2026, 12:55 PM

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they should be dredging at all. Fishing vessels use nets that are NOT SUPPOSED to dredge the sea floor. Because that's, you know, bad for the environment.

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Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons [View all] LiberalArkie Friday OP

this continued long after and probably still. We are horrible stewards of our oceans and planet in general. n/t Evolve Dammit Friday #1

Nasty stuff. Ray Bruns Friday #2

Not to mention the crap that escaped the containers (or was just dumped directly) erronis Friday #3

About all of them. Oil, gas, PCB's, chlorinated solvents. Almost all require extensive clean-up. Then there is Bikini Evolve Dammit Saturday #5

Well I'm not sure druidity33 Saturday #4

Never was a dredge fan either. Commercial shipping lanes though... Evolve Dammit Saturday #6

Makes farmed fish more desireable than fresh caught wild ones. wnylib Saturday #7

I think I'd still rather have wild-caught salmon from the Gulf of Alaska. erronis Saturday #8

That depends on where the feed stock for the farmed fish is sourced n/t Emrys Saturday #9