What is bottom trawling and what does it do to the seafloor?
Bottom trawling is a specific type of fishing gear that destroys marine biodiversity and threatens commercial and non-commercial fish species. Bottom trawling is an indiscriminate method of fishing using large, heavy nets that drag along the ocean floor smashing into everything in their path, including fragile deep-sea corals and anemones, and catching a wide array of fish species of all ages and other marine species.
