Bottom Trawls

Bottom trawls

Greepeace “Defending Oceans” - bottom trawling videos

Demersal or bottom fishing methods ~ (Courtesy of the Scottish Executive)

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)

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

How to buy fish with a clear conscience - 13th 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

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

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

Court quota skippers say: face ruin - 28th September 2005

Judge cuts levies on fishing offenders - 3rd September 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

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

Greenpeace casts net over bottom trawl fishing industry - 31st May 2004

EU decides to better protect dolphins - 23rd March 2004

North Sea fish have shrunk - 25th September 2003

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

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

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

Murder, terror and environmental destruction fuel international prawn trade - posted 28th February 2003

Prawn Boats 'facing same crisis as white fish fleet' - 26th February 2003

Ocean crisis caused by destructive fishing - 18th February 2003

Prawn net cuts cod catch - 12th February 2003

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

Common dolphin bycatch NW Atlantic gear - September 2002 - pdf

Trawl nets destroy UK's coral reefs 9th August 2002

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

Submarine snagged warps of pair trawlers - MAIB abstact ~ reprint - January 1997

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






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