Fish escapees were collected in a retainer bag attached to the fishing line of the trawl and behind the ground gear, and its catches were compared with those in the trawl codend.
We choke the seas with physical waste, ravage vast tracts of sea floor with heavy steel nets towed behind bottom trawling fishing fleets.
As part of our 'Protect What You Love' campaign, the team decided to organize a beach clean up to raise awareness about the consequences of bottom trawling and the trash left behind by the fishing industry.
The singers, Romy Croft and Oliver Sims, were slightly less interactive, though Sims still uses one uncanny stage move, dragging the toe of his shoe behind him as he pivots, as if trawling a river for a lost item.
At the desk behind her, a colleague prepares to spend the afternoon trawling through websites known to attract paedophiles, searching for and removing links to illegal content.
Bottom trawling, which involves raking the ocean floor for food on a huge scale, leaves behind wastelands where there had been complex ecosystems.
I literally began trawling".
"I'd rather be trawling".
But bottom trawling is brutal.
But trawling can damage the sea bed.
