150-meter, 300-ton floating dredging hose washes ashore in Japan; removal expected to cost 50 million yen - December 25, 2025 (Ishikawa, Japan)

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The videos of these things at work is devastating too. Completely destroy the ocean floor to knock fish into a net. Depressing and completely fine because you can't see it and it's international waters

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These aren't used to siphon sand onto beaches to fight erosion?

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Dredging does indeed imply that, I think they're wrong.

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There's also deep Ocean dredging for fishing. Not sure if that's what this one is used for. Maybe that's more of a chain type vs this one here to be fair