Bycatch in bottom trawling

Bottom trawlers drag weighted nets along the sea floor, scraping it bare as they scoop up everything in their path. Corals, as well as any unintended species of fish, are called bycatch that trawlers throw overboard, dead or dying. Video courtesy of Oceana.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Living Oceans Society
• Finding Coral Expedition
• coral
• bycatch
• trawl

[strikenetter]

@ropeseller53 We lost our herring fishery here in NC USA due to pollution. So many ignorant misinformed people reside in believing the worst stated and placing a biased thereof. Bycatch? The maker of this video should research comm. fishing regulations implemented to see why in fact so much bycatch is often accidentally harvested. FL, USA, fishermen required lawfully to use a net with a 98% bycatch rate. Fishermen in NC, USA, required to harvest bycatch of no value to keep species of value.

[ropeseller53]

a good trawl will only catch a maximum of 10% of the resident sealife-throw an object over the back of a trawler and it will rarely come up in the net-far more damage -million more %-IS DONE BY THE CHEMICALS YOU USE TO CLEAN YOUR HOUSE ,BATH AND TIOILET

[linoleumcarving]

thats like going hunting for squrriel and chopping down the trees to get to them.

[floydstinkyboy]

yes ocean bulldozers need to be banned!