bottom trawling fishing

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World Oceans Day – The BIG problem with bottom trawling

Bottom trawling is a fishing practice that herds and captures the ‘target species’, like ground fish or crabs, by towing a net along the ocean floor. Fishers use trawls to catch species that live on or close to the seafloor such as cod, hake, shrimp, octopus, mullet, halibut or anglerfish. It also captures a lot of ‘by-catch’, unwanted or non-target fish that are not intended to be caught. Trawling destroys the natural seafloor habitat by essentially rototilling the seabed. All...

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