Seafloor carnage: the truth about bottom trawling

Destructive fishing practices and overfishing are among the most significant threats facing our oceans today. A single pass of bottom trawl removes up to 20% of the seafloor fauna and flora. In some areas this happens many times every year.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• greenpeace
• oceans
• destructive
• fishing
• overfishing
• bottom
• trawling

[paekenglish]

1. A fisherman in his right mind would NEVER fish on a coral reef like Greenpeace would have you believe. It's simple. The coral and rocks are muck stronger that the chain on of the net and it would be a bar, not a chain, in seconds. As for the net it would be destroyed and at a cost of $1000's , not skipper would do it.

2. The mud and stuff you see in the vid doesn't happen often. It does happen I have seen in only twice in 25 years of fishing.

[GreenpeaceUK]

Bottom trawlers do enormous damage to the sea-bed, and their numbers have grown hugely in recent years as yields from pelagic (mid-water) trawls have decreased through overfishing. In the beam-trawling varient, it's a massive metal girder that is dragged across the sea-bed - easily powerful enough to rip up coral - as we have documented on many occasions.

[Alaskrab]

These guys need to be banned. Draggers are the rapists of the sea.

[EconCat88]

I dislike fisherman more after each viewing of these yt overfishing videos.

[Hutchr100]

I thought the same thing, no trawler skipper would risk his nets in such an area, this encourages me to believe this film is little more than propaganda. Peta are fond of putting out the same kind of message, unfortunately words that have little bearing on the happenings of real life.

[infraredruby2]

This is true, don't doubt it. I worked on a scallop trawler on the Georges Bank we kept a small % of the thousands of organisms that we brought up.The swim bladders of the fish were ruptured from dragging them up. We illegally kept and sold many fish we were not licensed to take. they called it "shack" and it was bought buy middle men who sold it mostly to fast food suppliers. Raynaudde,the oceans can be fished responsibly and consumers are learning to make purchasing decisions based responsibly

[RaynauddeChatillon]

Now if the dredgers crushed everything in their path then how come the fish and scallops usually come up fine? How about you welfare parasites stop intruding on men who actually have to work for a living and get a real job.

[777mark100]

You have the right to belive what you want to belive and thats fine. How did I guess you are a vegetaran. Lucky guess hu. Thats fine to. The fact is, most of you all really don't know what you are talking about. You have no idea what is really going on out there. I don't want to confuse you with any facts. Because i'm sure you already have your mine made up. You don't need to respond because I'm NOT. Peace Out

[1nerdykid]

@777mark100 Large fishing vessels from other countries are taking all of the fish with their high tech navigation equipment. I hope you can see in my perspective. Just because you're profession is being questioned, doesn't mean you can swear at people. Overfishing is an issue. You can't possibly disagree with that right? I wouldn't take you away from your job if I had the choice. I want to inform the consumers so the demand of seafood slowly declines, and people are less affected by it. Peace.

[1nerdykid]

@777mark100 If conservation action had been taken to preserve the fish stocks, then 12% of Newfoundland's population would not have emigrated. I don't think you should be so mean to activists. Not all of us are the same. That would be like saying all fisherman are the same. I am an activist, but I understand the revenue of fisheries, and just stopping fishing would cause even more lifestyle problems. In Africa, local fishermen are starving because of commercial fishing(continued above)

[1nerdykid]

@777mark100 Hi! um yea, this is kind of like propaganda. I bet this rarely happens(it does sometimes though). But that isn't the point. The message of these videos are to raise awareness of overfishing. We are overexploiting the oceans, right? You must have saw a decrease in fish catch or some clues that the ocean is not what it used to be. If you are Canadian, you must have heard of the 1992 cod fishery collapse in Newfoundland. Over 40 000 jobs were lost!(continued above)

[777mark100]

@1nerdykid They are only showing you what they want you to see. I am a commercial fisherman as well as alot of my friends. And anyone who knows a damn thing knows this is propaganda crap. The tree hugers aren't going to stop untill they save the world. The fact is, the world needs to be saved from most of them. The politicians aren't going to stop untill all seafood is imported. I spend my life on the sea, and I as well as the rest of us knows what is up. That is what is fake about it.

[1nerdykid]

@777mark100 what is fake about this?