Deep sea trawling rewards unique species of fish that can't be fished from shore. These fish can be cooked into foods (some with additional effects), or they can be cut with a knife to obtain offcuts, as …

Bottom trawling is trawling (towing a trawl, which is a fishing net) along the seafloor. It is also referred to as "dragging". The scientific community divides bottom trawling into benthic trawling and demersal …

New Zealand - the only country still bottom trawling on seamounts of the South Pacific high seas - has submitted a proposal which would significantly increase the amount of coral and other deep-sea …

Aug 8, 2025 · Known as bottom trawling, this method does not just harvest fish; it also razes coral reefs, suffocates ocean biodiversity, and releases carbon stored for centuries beneath the seafloor.

Commercial fishing practices, particularly trawling, often result in the unintended capture of non-target marine species, a phenomenon known as bycatch. This widespread issue affects numerous marine …

What is bottom trawling? Bottom trawling is a destructive method of fishing that involves dragging heavy, weighted nets across the sea floor in an effort to catch fish. It’s popular with commercial fishing …

Bottom trawling destroys far more ocean habitat than any other fishing practice on the West Coast. In this fishing method, large weighted nets are dragged across the ocean floor, clear-cutting a swath of …

Jan 15, 2025 · In a two-year period, 19,200 hours of trawling were recorded at depths below 800 meters, despite the Deep-Sea Access Regulation banning such activities. These ongoing threats jeopardize …

With deep-sea trawling currently conducted along most continental margins, we conclude that trawling represents a major threat to the deep seafloor ecosystem at the global scale. Trawling represents …

May 9, 2025 · Although it may sound like a disaster movie, this is a scene from newly released rare footage of bottom trawling —a particularly destructive method of fishing in which a ship drags a …