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  2. Bottom trawling - Wikipedia

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    Bottom trawling can be contrasted with midwater trawling (also known as pelagic trawling), where a net is towed higher in the water column. Midwater trawling catches pelagic fish such as anchovies and mackerel, whereas bottom trawling targets both bottom-living fish and semi-pelagic species such as cod, squid, shrimp, and rockfish.

  3. Destructive fishing practices - Wikipedia

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    Bottom trawling is trawling (towing a trawl, which is a fishing net) along the sea floor. It is also referred to as "dragging". The scientific community divides bottom trawling into benthic trawling and demersal trawling. Benthic trawling is towing a net at the very bottom of the ocean and demersal trawling is towing a net just above the ...

  4. Public support ban of destructive fishing method in marine ...

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    Bottom trawling uses nets that can be as large as a football field that can damage marine habitats, campaigners say. Public support ban of destructive fishing method in marine sanctuaries – poll ...

  5. Trawling - Wikipedia

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    Trawling can be divided into bottom trawling and midwater trawling, depending on how high the trawl (net) is in the water column. Bottom trawling is towing the trawl along (benthic trawling) or close to (demersal trawling) the sea floor. Bottom trawling is an industrial fishing method in which a large net with heavy weights is dragged across ...

  6. Fishing boats trawled protected areas for more than 7,000 ...

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  7. Fishing techniques - Wikipedia

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    Bottom trawling is trawling (towing a trawl, which is a fishing net) along the sea floor. It is also referred to as "dragging". The scientific community divides bottom trawling into benthic trawling and demersal trawling. Benthic trawling is towing a net at the very bottom of the ocean and demersal trawling is towing a net just above the ...

  8. Fisherman docked at SF pier had more than 2,000 pounds of ...

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    In all, officials said the commercial trawl boat owner was caught with over 2,000 pounds […] Fisherman docked at SF pier had more than 2,000 pounds of illegal halibut, salmon: CDFW Skip to main ...

  9. Unsustainable fishing methods - Wikipedia

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    This is a by-product of the unselective nature of modern fishing gear, such as bottom trawling which captures everything in the path of the net. [18] Consumer-grade gear such as fishing rods and nets are used by pirate fishers to undertake illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing which adds to the number of marine species taken from their ...