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"Divers have filmed this mud before," said Mr. Pauly, who in 1998 wrote a seminal research paper that coined the term "fishing down the food web" to describe how commercial fishing is depleting the world's oceans.
"What was not known before was that you could see these mud trails from space. I was flabbergasted by it."
Mr. Pauly said Mr. Van Houtan had found the pictures by looking at images shot from a QuickBird satellite, owned by DigitalGlobe.
"He wanted to know what we were seeing in these pictures," said Mr. Pauly.
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