bottom trawling

Bottom trawling can cause serious damage to sea floor habitats.

There is no growing momentum for a moratorium on bottom trawling.

Another example is the destruction of ocean floors by bottom trawling.

I think that there are other ways to catch fish than bottom trawling, although for some species it is not very obvious.

Deep water coral species such as this are especially affected by the practice of bottom trawling.

Pollution and fishing practices, such as bottom trawling, were among the main threats.

February - The fishing industry proposes limits on bottom trawling.

The practice of bottom trawling can have hugely damaging environmental consequences.

They believed that bottom trawling, like tilling of land, actually increased production.

Bottom trawling is one of the most harmful methods.

Why doesn't Canada support a moratorium on bottom trawling?

Bottom trawling occurs on continental shelves in all the world's oceans.

In particular, sea turtles can be caught when bottom trawling is used by the commercial shrimp fishing industry.

Greenpeace says that bottom trawling has already "extinguished" 10,000 species.

In 2010, the total world catch was about nineteen thousand tonnes, mostly caught by bottom trawling.

Rock coral on seamounts across the ocean are under fire from bottom trawling.

The environmental community has called for protective and precautionary measures on fishing practices, in particular bottom trawling.

Bottom trawling has been blamed for reducing the populations of many of fish species.

Of note, bottom trawling takes place in a relatively small percentage of the total fishing area on the west coast.

However there is no evidence that bottom trawling imposes a substantial mortality on snow crab.

Bottom trawling stirs up the sediment at the bottom of the sea.

Deep bottom trawling has highly negative impact on cold seep communities and those ecosystems are threatened.

The reefs are susceptible to damage by fishing, especially bottom trawling and dredging.

It will offer protection from the most damaging activities, such as scallop dredging or bottom trawling.

One of the most dramatic impacts on marine life came from the advent of bottom trawling.