Industrial fishing

Seabed environmental damage caused by trawling operations

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)

Dolphin corpses found near trawlers - 15th March 2005

EU decides to better protect dolphins - 23rd March 2004

North Sea fish have shrunk - 25th September 2003

Anchovies, a wasted resource - 15th September 2003

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

Anchovies abandon Bay of Biscay for warm British waters - 30th August 2003

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

The dead sea cells - industrialised greed ends harvest of the deep - 17th May 2003

European Union may lift ban on South American fish meal - 29th April 2003

Peruvian activist takes on the fishmeal industry - 18th April 2003

Minister agrees large industrial companies must be brought to heel - 13th February 2003

Galicia calls for ban to reduce fishing effort - 12th February 2003

WWF challenges Danish sand eel fishery on cod bycatch grounds - 28th January 2003

Fishmeal producers in Europe hope to end ban on use in animal feed - 24th January 2003

Toxic fish from Baltic make it to Australian shores - 2nd January 2003

Swedish herring delivered to Australian tuna farms - 11th December 2002

Executive slacks on building science case - 2nd December 2002

Sinking Fast: How Factory Trawlers Are Destroying U.S. Fisheries - Greenpeace USA, 1996

Overfishing by industrial fleets exploits renewable resources

Greenpeace Report on Industrial Fisheries - From Fish to Fodder

Marine mammal population dynamics and trophic interactions ~ ICES CM 2001/ ACE: 01)

Dead Ahead - Industrial Fishing Fleets Set Course for Disaster

Greenpeace Report - Fishing for Farm Feeds and Fertilizers

Greenpeace increases pressure to stop factory trawlers - 27th June 2001


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