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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[btonyb123]

It's so sad and i am fucking powerless to stop it corporate and consumer greed of the western world

[MaoriStyles101]

Yeah out of the living things they pull up about 80% of it goes back into the water usually dead, what a fukn disgusting waste, this should be banned.

[LemonPie278]

it's so sad that all these companies don't even think about what they are doing to the environment and just go ahead with what they're doing because they want to make money. in the long run, they're just going to wipe out the ocean.

[Mike Chesmore]

At 8yrs. old, my daughter asked what all the seagulls were eating behind the dragger. I said, it is the fish they are letting go, because its too small to keep. She asked, why don't they swim away and I told her, they can't, they're dead. She asked, aren't they killing their future stock? AMAIZING, a 8 year old child can see the distruction and our elected leaders cannot.

[Michael Walker]

Orange roughy is a nice eating fish

[Lavalambtron .]

We should suffer what we do to other species, it would be interesting if an alien species came to our planet and deploy a kind of giant net that would skim the surface of this planet and catch everything on it's surface, humans included, to be eaten by them or discarded in a some alien dump. Fishermen are criminals probaly due to ignorance and greed!

[MmmmmhBeer]

ever seen what they do in the Asian countries????

[Johnathan Lawson]

we can all do something! donate yo

[ney57e]

Fish itself is not sustainable in the long run. By depleting various marine ecosystems, you're also denying them of ever returning. Many of these ecosystems are built by centuries or millenium. This solution is like hiding under your bed while fire is ravaging your house. Protein and fats is needed for humans and I agree it can not be supplied fully by plants. A good alternative (but disgusting) is insect combined with plants as they have high energy efficiencies compared to feed. Not very tasty

[Northstar81100]

Not really no. Yea some of the big boat's r draggin ton's of gear, lst 1 i was on it was 15 ton's but it's not that weight in the water cos the rubber hoppers & net r bouyant, tickler chain & gear is designed 2 skim along bottom & not dig in like say a scallop dreg. Afew years ago the French were using dregs with 7-8 inch teeth digging into bottom, lot more lasting damage from that !