Trawls

BOTTOM TRAWLS

MIDWATER TRAWLS

Greepeace "Defending Oceans" - pair trawling and bycatch interactive guides

Greepeace “Defending Oceans” - bottom trawling videos

Seabed environmental damage caused by trawling operations

ICES - Close Europe's cold-water coral reefs to fishing

Bycatch - The hidden cost of bottom trawling (link to Greenpeace NZ)

Fishing capture gears and methods (UN Ocean Atlas World Fish fish capture technology)

Fishing methods (Marine Conservation Society Fishonline Website)

Fishing Gear types - (FIGIS - Fisheries Global Information System)

How to buy fish with a clear conscience - 13th March 2006

Scientist warns of threat to last stronghold of endangered turtle -  8th March 2006

Public outraged at assault on sea turtle protections - 3rd March 2006

Marine ecologists to help rebuild decreasing fish stocks - 16th February 2006

Have your say on the future of seafish – 10th February 2006

Detective work needed on which nets kill dolphins - 23rd January 2006

Rescuers ready for Thames whale - 20th January 2006

Whale spotted in central London  - 20th January 2006

Dolphin carnage returns to coast  - 17th January 2006

21 dolphins washed up on beaches – 16th January 2006

Dolphin slaughter begins again - 16th January 2006  

Legal action against UK over insufficient cetacean protection - 20th December 2005

Devon trawlermen convicted of multiple fishing offences – 10th November 2005

Commission decides not to ban pair trawls - 23rd April 2005

Dolphin corpses found near trawlers - 15th March 2005

Call for bass boycott after dolphin death  - 30th November 2004

Dolphin carcass signals start of winter carnage - 19th November 2004

EU, Russia ban some trawling in Northern Atlantic  - 18th November 2004

Action pledge to 'save dolphins'  - 13th November 2004

Pressure rises on trawling - 19th October 2004

EU fleet exposed destroying deep sea life - 19th October 2004

Fishermen call for end to slaughter caused by EU net laws - 18th October 2004

Probe on dolphin deaths as research trawl kills 14 dolphins  - 14th October 2004

Nets leave a trail of death in the sea - 9th October 2004

UN lobbied to ban bottom trawl fishing - 6th October 2004

Trawlers that kill hundreds of dolphins banned from British seas - 28th September 2004

Bradshaw intent on dolphin protection measures - 28th September 2004

Pair trawling for sea bass banned - 27th September 2004

UK Fisheries Minister announces pair trawl ban - 27th September 2004

Fishermen seek ban on EU multi-rig trawlers - 3rd July 2004

New Malaysian law soon on permitted trawl nets - 29th June 2004

Endangered coral species inTasman Sea damaged by deep sea trawlers - 13th June 2004

Coalition seeks UN halt to deep sea destruction - 7th June 2004

Environmentalists seek ban on bottom trawl fishing - 7th June 2004

Havens of newly found marine life under threat  - 5th June 2004

Restaurants & hotels ban sea bass caught by pair trawlers - 31st May 2004

Danish trawler scoops up German sub in its nets - 11th May 2004

Minister to probe bass fishery veto - 13th April 2004

Court decision allows more sea lion killing - 8th April 2004

EU decides to better protect dolphins - 23rd March 2004

Nine dolphins washed up on local Dorset (UK) beaches - 24th February 2004

Dolphins in net danger - 23rd February 2004

New-born porpoise caught in trawler net - 19th February 2004

Killing time on a sea of desperation, UK dolphins are being slaughtered - 4th February 2004

Fishermen opt for high-risk policy in fight to secure future - 3rd February 2004

MPs back sea bass ban - 3rd February 2004

Dolphin deaths just days after report - 2nd February 2004

Fishermen poised for illegal action - 31st January 2004  

We’ll break law on cod limits, say trawlermen - 31st January 20004

Higher contaminant levels add fuel to argument for wild fish - 11th January 2004

Ministers plan allows more sea lion deaths - 7th October 2003

Fishing method eyed in mammals’ deaths - 4th October 2003

Latest deaths of whales add to the mystery - 4th October 2003

North Sea fish have shrunk - 25th September 2003

JNCC recommends “Set aside fifth of Irish Sea for nature”- 14th September 2003

Trawlers threaten ocean’s biodiversity - 30th August 2003

Fleet in crisis as fish quotas dry up - 21st August 2003

Fishing ban aims to save Scottish reef - 21st August 2003

Dolphin meat eaters in France? - 20th August 2003

New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries plans to allow more sea lion killing - 17th August 2003

Coral reefs doomed, overfishing is killing ecosystems - 16th August 2003

Albatross left for dead - 14th August 2003

Australia acts to combat effects of marine debris on wildlife – 13th August 2003

Search for whale is abandoned - 9th August 2003

Hopes to resume search for entangled whale - 9th August 2003

Whale still caught in net - 5th August 2003

Fresh bid to free trapped whale from trawl net- 5th August 2003

Conservation as the catch of the day for trawl nets - 31st July 2003

Fisheries: Commission acts to protect dolphins and porpoises - 24th July 2003

EU plans for dolphin-friendly Baltic - 23rd July 2003

Rainforests of the sea ravaged by overfishing and pollution - 18th July 2003

Mauritanian beaches full of dead dolphins - 1st July 2003

Bycatch causes mass deaths of dolphins and turtles - 20th June 2003

Nearly 1,000 whales drowning daily in fishing nets: study - 15th June 2003

177 Scottish skippers apply to quit fishing - 24th April 2003

Marine creatures threatened by trawlers - 18th April 2003

EU bans trawling for cod in Baltic waters until September - 15th April 2003

Pacific Council imposes devastating emergency limits on trawl fishery - 14th April 2003

The vaquita (IUCN Red list assessed  in 1996) still critically endangered - posted 25th February 2003

Oceans at risk - the real cost of a prawn sandwich - 19th February 2003

“No fishing” zone to protect coral - 10th February 2003

Visiting the Black Sea Dolphins with “Solveig VII”

New Zealand hoki fishermen to fit bird bafflers - 31st December 2002

MSC Hoki appeal shows fishery should never have been certified 16th December 2002

Storm debris renders grids useless - 8th November 2002

Sea lion kills force closure of squid fishery - 15th April 2002

Atlantic pelagic pair trawling is history

Congressman F. Pallone letter to Douglas K. Hall Ast. Secretary Department of Commerce

Beam trawlers are laying waste to the seabed   - 1st December 2001

Effects on the seabed sediment from beam trawls in the North Sea (October 1996)







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