2025年3月13日 · 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 companies, because it makes it easy to catch large quantities of fish in one go.

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 trawling.

Bottom - or demersal - trawling is a fishing method that uses towed nets to catch fish and other marine species living on or close to the seabed. Bottom trawling includes several different types of fishing gear that use a cone-like net with a closed end (cod-end) that holds the catch.

Bottom trawling is a widespread industrial fishing practice that involves dragging heavy nets, large metal doors and chains over the seafloor to catch fish.

Bottom trawling is a fishing practice that herds and captures the target species, like ground fish or crabs, by towing a net along the ocean floor.

Bottom trawling is a fishing method using towed nets to catch fish and other marine species living on or near the seabed. Bottom trawling includes several different types of fishing gear.

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 habitat in their wake.

2022年1月5日 · Bottom trawling provides about a quarter of all wild-caught seafood but comes with the environmental impact of disturbing the seafloor. It’s scientists’ job to measure the environmental impact so policy-makers and managers can best balance food production and environmental impact.

2024年1月17日 · Bottom trawling is a destructive fishing practice, and new research shows it releases carbon emissions too. Bottom trawling is banned in over half of U.S. federal waters, and produces...

Bottom trawling is a method of marine fishing that involves one or two boats dragging large, weighted nets across the seabed. Fishers use trawls to catch species that live on or close to the seafloor such as cod, hake, shrimp, octopus, mullet, halibut or anglerfish.