I went diving with a friend once in a fjord, and it was AWESOME - tons of fish and a sea bottom teaming with life - so unbelievable beautiful We immediately went and told our friends a the diving club, and the next weekend, we all went there - only to find all fish gone, and the sea bottom barrent, and with weird trails?!? When we came back to the harbour, we felt into talk with a guy on the pier, and told him about our experience, and he said, we wouldn't find anything in the fjord in next couple of years, because that Friday, two trawlers with bottom nets had gone trough the fjord and taken everything and destroyed the base for life on the bottom. They totally destroyed everything with those bottom nets !!!
we have about 50 boats doing this every night where we live. the whole "ocean" where we live is simply powder sand and all corals are gone except close to the shore. There is no decent size fishes what so ever even the tiny once is hard to find. They had to apply guards to the marine protected areas to prevent the boats from pulling the nets through the little corals left They went from using dynamite to use nets :3 both is illegal here but nothing happens
@@Aeybd ocean dont care about plastic what so ever (believe it or not) it floats on the top and reach land and get stuck. the plastic that sinks dissapear into the "mud sand" which is the bottom of the ocean (first comes corals then normal sand then mud sand) What affects the water is the chemicals /products that was inside the plastic container.
@@siri5784 not sure what u reffered to since i had 2 comments :p Fishing nets that get stuck in the ocean usually fissapear into the powdersand or corals grows over it. Normal fishingnets is alright it is the active gear fishing where u pull it behind the boats that cause alot of destruction. Normal nets is not good at catching smart fishes and the fish u catch is usually determed by the hole size and most places bans nets with a mesh smaller than 3x3cm It is the most substainable fishing methode to feed the population and not harm the ocean to much.
@@Nickerian91 im just talking about nets that are just there floating in the deep water. It does take a while to sink all the way to the bottom so i reckon it may cause bigger fish problems like eating it or getting tangled in it.
I spent four years working on trawlers out of St Helens in Tasmania throughout the Bass Straights in the early eighties. When I think back at the damage those floating fish factories did I shake my head in shame . We dragged steel mesh cages with metal raking teeth on the front at around 60 meters of depth for up to a klm or so . So much bycatch thrown away dead and wasted. Then if we went back and fished a patch worked a week or month before by other trawlers the stink of decay would nearly lift you off your feet. Sorry to say man is the most destructive invasive species on earth it's just the greed that is in our nature.
I was studied with the Tiger Boat at Klang Selangor in year 2k togather with my MPhy team members about 10 of them . We can see the boat harvested the bottom mud that included many big crockers and other shell fishes , sea cucumbers , blind eyes mud drilling fishes and poison sea rambutan . The expedition notice us that the tiger boat fishing was very damaging to the sea bed near to the shore .
@@christopherchongloi1475 AC challenger INEOS Team UK is bound for Auckland, the team look to make up for lost time. They are flying the boat to New Zealand aboard a 1987 Ukrainian Antonov cargo plane that fellow challengers American Magic used to deliver their second race boat to Auckland www.stuff.co.nz/sport/americas-cup/122918617/americas-cup-british-syndicate-fly-second-boat-to-new-zealand
Not a single fisherman alive wants to empty the sea. They want to earn a living and still earn it in 10 years time. If you want to hear about fishermen emptying the sea go to fucking china. They have so little fish left there that they are going to argentina to fish.
@@ggeilokowski it is illegal in most places since u destroy the corals. In my place they would charge you with everything possible SEC. 87. Engaging in Unauthorized Fisheries Activities. SEC. 93. Use of Fine Mesh Net SEC. 95. Use of Active Gear (Pulling net behind the boat) SEC. 96. Ban on Coral Exploitation and Exportation SEC. 97. Ban on Muro-ami, Other Methods and Gear Destructive to Coral Reefs (list goes on) lets just say that you will never see daylight again since each crime gives you 1-20 year in prison and between 10k-200k dollar (yes each)
I am in the final stages of completing a documentary on behalf of Leave No Trace Brighton in the UK highlighting the effects of fishing trawlers in the ocean and raising awareness. Is there any chance i can use some of the footage in this film and credit you?
I worked on a boat in Alaska that would collect these bags from trawler boats and it did not have wheels on it. I was a deck hand and have even been inside of these nets before quite a lot. Inspecting for holes before getting them ready to send back out......sometimes there were shit loads of the wrong kinds of fish in the net and I always wondered what they looked like under water. The nets we were using I think were just close to the bottom but I don't know exactly.
If you look at it even from a greedy perspective it still makes no sense as wouldn’t you want to preserve the fishery so you can continue to exploit it
The graphic is incomplete , on actual trawl gear the ground gear ( chain or bobbins in this case ) extends longer and is attached to the bottom of the trawl doors and is shorter than the foot rope of the net itself .
How about we just let people destroy this Earth? We Human will at some point go exctint, and many other animal species, and then a couple of thousands or million years later we would see a Earth that thrives (if any other animal doesnt become intelligent)
@@colbyillies9567 He did and he is not far off. The nets can be very large as big as 240 metres wide and 160 metres deep but the mesh size in the mouth of the trawl are huge sometimes as big as 50 metres long.
@@panathasg13 I understand this and I am a fisherman myself but I have not once heard of anyone using a net the size of 400m x 200m. Then again it depends what boards they are using for there spread so I guess its possible but it would have to be a bloody big boat for that kind of gear.
Idk why fish are like that but I think it's because they are just naturally curious creatures and they don't know that it's a threat to them because of coarse nets aren't part of the ecosystem. Whenever I clean my fish tank sometimes my fish will swim right into the net while I'm trying to pick up dead plants and I have to wait till they swim out.
Trawling is the worst legal fishing method. Not only does it destroy the bottom and its ecosystem (plant life, corals, reefs, etc.) but it also kills more bycatch than target fish. All of the bycatch thrown back is usually out of season or too small but because they've been pressed in the net from the weight of all the other fish and out of water so long by the time they get thrown back they're either dead or dying and the birds pick them off on the surface. And it's legal. Thank god they seriously curtailed the amount of trawlers on long island (and now theyre mostly mid and top water trawlers for squid and bunker) and the marine life has recovered a lot.
They avoid it. The machine is massively strong and can pull boulders. The design can also bounce over smaller things. The flounder may jump off the bottom but most can't get out of the way of a wide net. I dived Cape Cod bay for a few years gathering scallops until a scallop dragger came. I could see their GPS put them in a perfect pattern with very small gaps between the drags. Like a plowed field. It changed a sea garden of tv and refrigerator sized scattered boulders scattered with weeds and full of life, to a pool table desert. They were there until it wasn't enough to make any money catching. Five years later the bottom was still barren with only sand dollars. I would look for large rock patches with a sounder. Rocks a big as a truck. They dump there as they nets would foul on them. I would find a few scallops and lobsters then. If a net was badly snagged it would be cut free and catch and kill anything not small enough to swim through the net They kill forever as they don't rot but usually get so full of debris they end up buried in the sand. They essentially ruin the habitat for decades. There were some party charter flounder boats in summer that went out of business as the catches are dismal once the dragger was done wrecking the bottom. The bottom doesn't support an ecosystem for decades. The bottom becomes current swept hard sand.
@@paulgraham6353 Trawling is nothing like dredging . Fishing gear is vastly expensive , we do not deliberately tow over hard bottoms trawling , netting would not stand up to that kind of punishment , hopper or bobbin nets like in video will only pass over smooth round boulders that are semi submerged in mud or sand , if the curve of the boulder is larger than the diameter of the hopper disc it will be scooped up , simple physics . Nor do we tow around weed . weed clogs the meshes and stops the small particles of sand passing through , as the sand builds up it becomes very heavy , we use trawl doors to spread the net , and as the sand builds up in the codend because of the weed , the trawl doors lift off the bottom and the net loses its spread and stops fishing. Perhaps Paul you should find a scallop dredging video and post your comment on it . If trawling does "potentially ruin the habitat for decades " perhaps you can explain how come we have traditional fishing grounds ? surely if you are correct no trawler could ever return to the same area " for decades " think about it . Lost fishing gear is usually called ghost nets , or creels . Where i live in the world creels , or their ropes rather ,are continually drowning Basking Sharks and Minkie Whales , yet there is a push to make our coasts static gear only , a push by creelmen , in 35 years trawling I have never caught either , I know of one trawler that has once , and at least 30 occasions where static gear has . Our target species is Prawns , we avoid fish , to do that we tow at 2.5 knots allowing any fish to be able to swim back out of our net. we have 160mm mesh in the cover , and 200mm square panel in the extension . Fish boats tow upwards of 3.5 knots .
@@jonathanmcallister3611 Its good that at least one person knows what they are talking about, unfortunatly people belive these cartoons, because thats all they are. They bear no resembalance at all to a properly set up otter trawl. (and no its not used to catch otters). We are for ever seeing computer generated films of trawls crashing into reefs and wrecks , smashing them to pieces, they are about as accurate as most other cartoons.
@@jonathanmcallister3611 I totally agree with what you said about trawling. Howver where i live there are a lot of creels. They are mostly inshore where there is little danger of losing them. Gear set a few miles offshore to catch brown crabs can get towed away by trawlers. This is mostly EU trawlers who dont give a shit about us. Any british trawlers going to these areas phone the creel fishermen and get the posotion of their gear. If they do snag someones creels they always phone to say where is is located so that it can be retrieved. Most creel skippers are perfectly decent and would never leave old gear in the sea to rot and "ghost fish" there are a handful of skippers who leave gear on a bit of ground because it is old and they dont want to dispose of it, This is the main cause of ghost fishing. If the gear dumping by the few boats could be stopped it would be a huge help.
I wonder if referring to them as living creatures carrying out their ecological purposes would have a different affect on viewers rather than referring to them as seafood.
@@jonathanmcallister3611 Good to hear, i know a lot of spanish and french vessels dump stuff in the sea while scottish boats are bringing tons of litter back which has been caught in the nets
Can’ pull over coral, would rip the trawls, we only pull in the gulf where its all sand bottom, or muddy bottomed canals. plus, the fish are fine that have to be thrown back, its illegal to keep most fish caught in a trawl, only shrimp and baitfish.
Imagine if we hunted deer the same way. Dragging large heavy "nets" across the ground through forests using huge aircraft. Catching and killing every kind of animal in its way, while also devastating the very forest itself. Preventing any short term chance of recovery. I support farming, hunting and fishing. But bottom trawling is simply short sighted, destructive and not needed. But as long as it's legal and there is money to be made, of course people will keep doing it.
@John johnson Well yes, obviously. I wrote that to try to visualize what bottom trawling is doing to the ocean floor. Most people only see the surface, easy to forget that even what we can't see is very important.
@@garrettt5699 the ship i used to work in often caught dolphins and turtles in the net. We never did anything but release them, but a friend of mine said they ate a dolphin that was caught in their net.
The majority of farmed fish is not only unhealthy for you, but generally also and environmental nightmare wherever the pens are held, or when they’re regularly breached and the invasive fish species escape into the natural environment.
superharryboy there’s rollers on the net that are designed to roll over coral, in addition it would be an investment to tow over coral without rollers, new nets every week nobody has the money for that
How is this a legal way to catch, I live in a community that had our traditional method banned by the Supreme Court because it had the potential to be too effective.
Yet another mis informed idiot. Trawlers never trawl on coral reefs because it damages the nets. They trawl on sand mud and rock. How the fuck can you damage sand? All is does is kick some sand up which immediately falls back to the bottom and does no harm. Maybe listen to an actual fisherman rather than an armchair expert who knows fuck all about fishing.
@@michaelfoulis7438 I’m writing a scientific paper of the effects of trawling. Not only _do_ fishermen trawl where there is coral (mainly on seamounts), but there are still large amounts of organisms in sandy and muddy bottoms. The problem isn’t that you’re damaging the sand itself, you’re damaging everything that lives in it. Trawling is severly impacting benthic habitats, and many fishermen don’t care because they earn money from it.
Once man finishes destroying the Oceans, life on this planet will slowly cease to exist. This planet does not exist without Ocean life and its function.
Correct, In the north sea there are plenty of fishing areas which can be trawled every few days. All the fish dont gather in one tight area. What the trawlers take from the area is soon replaced by fish which are moving.
Please tell me what one is easier, killing a tied up sick cow with a fully automatic m60 or cruising around in big fishing boat in a nice calm harbour at everyone else’s expense?
Those trawlers were Chinese trawlers. Adern is in cahoots and is well aware of the Debt Trap Deplomacy awarded to the Chinese to pay that debt with depletion of seaford stocks, and land to pay said debt.
This way of fishing destroys the aquatic ecosystems so it's not recommended if you want to fish for a while keep doing this and there won't be any fish left
Not a single UK fisherman wants that. They want to earn a living and still have that living in 10 years time. If you want to learn about fishermen cleaning the sea go to CHINA. They have no fish left and are going to argentina at the other end of the fucking pacific to decimate there too.
Why not increase the productivity of net fishing? After casting the net into the ocean, reduce the number of times needed to pull the net up to check, by simply launching a mini robot (toy sized) submarine with multiple waterproof cameras and sea torches linked to a weather resistant cable to the boat. The sailor simply via remote control which sends signal via the cable to move the robot mini submarine underwater to check the the level of fishes in the net. This will significantly reduce the number of times the empty net needs to be trawled up onboard and recast thus maximising efficiencies, reducing risks of net tears, reducing injuries and eliminating unnecessary labour. Please feedback to management.
Yet another mis informed idiot. Trawlers never trawl on coral reefs because it damages the nets. They trawl on sand mud and rock. How the fuck can you damage sand? All is does is kick some sand up which immediately falls back to the bottom and does no harm. Maybe listen to an actual fisherman rather than an armchair expert who knows fuck all about fishing.
Do you surf fish cus if you do you'll understand you idiot. If you dont shut the Fuck up. And if you don't have a proper way to say things or explain. Well then SHUT THE FUCK UP
The world needs to expand existing animal habitats on both land and in the oceans by 100x. Too much development of the land is taking away animal and natural habitats and too much fishing and netting is destroying and depleting the ocean. The human population has doubled since 1980s and it is continuing to grow out of control at a logarithmic rate. See the world population websites if you don't agree. Our planet has not grown to adjust to the human growth, so we as humans must learn how to balance our population and our dedicated land for Farming and living for humans, and habitats for animals. Natural and animal habitats must be protected and increased in size or the only animals we will have left are on farms and zoos. We must do this now before it is too late and the passage of time and human greed erases all animal and natural habitats. Most people are narrow minded and think we can just live together however man in most all scenarios destroy habitats so there is no living together side by side.
The Earth could easily support our population, especially with modern technology. The problem is capitalism. We need to, as a global society, ditch the fantasy of infinite economic growth and start living within our means again, like we did thousands of years ago. We don't even need to ditch our tech and go primitive, if anything our modern insights would make living in concert with nature easier. It's 100% a problem with the people in power, and their endless quest for more money at the expense of everyone and everything else.
@@concentratedcringe Nice try at a pivot from the fact that the Oceans are becoming depleted due to industrialization of massive fishing vessels from mostly China and other countries that have not limits on fishing. Industrial fishing and commercial fishing need to be outlawed.
@@conanthedestroyer7123 What in my comment made you think I excluded China, or that I don't oppose the hyper-industrialised global fishing industry? The shit those cunts are doing is exactly the sort of short-sighted locust mentality that capitalism encourages (and yes, China is a capitalist country). What I was saying is that linear economies (which includes every country on Earth) aren't sustainable, and capitalism encourages that.
Yet another mis informed idiot. Trawlers never trawl on coral reefs because it damages the nets. They trawl on sand mud and rock. How the fuck can you damage sand? All is does is kick some sand up which immediately falls back to the bottom and does no harm. Maybe listen to an actual fisherman rather than an armchair expert who knows fuck all about fishing.
They ban alot of things in this world....and somewhere out there is people who will still do it illegally because they don't care about the law. However yes, this method shouldn't be done.
Yet another mis informed idiot. Trawlers never trawl on coral reefs because it damages the nets. They trawl on sand mud and rock. How the fuck can you damage sand? All is does is kick some sand up which immediately falls back to the bottom and does no harm. Maybe listen to an actual fisherman rather than an armchair expert who knows fuck all about fishing.
Even cows know enough to graze sporadically instead of leaving a trail of complete destruction.
Cry
@@YourAverageExJunkie 🤦
What a slap in the face of every human that has ever worked to provide food to you couch dwellers
Hogs don't
@@kxkxkxkxand yet hogs don't grow to the same size or larger than whales, imagine that eh?
I went diving with a friend once in a fjord, and it was AWESOME - tons of fish and a sea bottom teaming with life - so unbelievable beautiful
We immediately went and told our friends a the diving club, and the next weekend, we all went there - only to find all fish gone, and the sea bottom barrent, and with weird trails?!?
When we came back to the harbour, we felt into talk with a guy on the pier, and told him about our experience, and he said, we wouldn't find anything in the fjord in next couple of years, because that Friday, two trawlers with bottom nets had gone trough the fjord and taken everything and destroyed the base for life on the bottom.
They totally destroyed everything with those bottom nets !!!
we have about 50 boats doing this every night where we live. the whole "ocean" where we live is simply powder sand and all corals are gone except close to the shore. There is no decent size fishes what so ever even the tiny once is hard to find. They had to apply guards to the marine protected areas to prevent the boats from pulling the nets through the little corals left
They went from using dynamite to use nets :3 both is illegal here but nothing happens
@@Aeybd ocean dont care about plastic what so ever (believe it or not) it floats on the top and reach land and get stuck. the plastic that sinks dissapear into the "mud sand" which is the bottom of the ocean (first comes corals then normal sand then mud sand)
What affects the water is the chemicals /products that was inside the plastic container.
@@Nickerian91 also fishing nets
@@siri5784 not sure what u reffered to since i had 2 comments :p
Fishing nets that get stuck in the ocean usually fissapear into the powdersand or corals grows over it.
Normal fishingnets is alright it is the active gear fishing where u pull it behind the boats that cause alot of destruction.
Normal nets is not good at catching smart fishes and the fish u catch is usually determed by the hole size and most places bans nets with a mesh smaller than 3x3cm
It is the most substainable fishing methode to feed the population and not harm the ocean to much.
@@Nickerian91 im just talking about nets that are just there floating in the deep water. It does take a while to sink all the way to the bottom so i reckon it may cause bigger fish problems like eating it or getting tangled in it.
I spent four years working on trawlers out of St Helens in Tasmania throughout the Bass Straights in the early eighties. When I think back at the damage those floating fish factories did I shake my head in shame . We dragged steel mesh cages with metal raking teeth on the front at around 60 meters of depth for up to a klm or so . So much bycatch thrown away dead and wasted.
Then if we went back and fished a patch worked a week or month before by other trawlers the stink of decay would nearly lift you off your feet.
Sorry to say man is the most destructive invasive species on earth it's just the greed that is in our nature.
I was studied with the Tiger Boat at Klang Selangor in year 2k togather with my MPhy team members about 10 of them . We can see the boat harvested the bottom mud that included many big crockers and other shell fishes , sea cucumbers , blind eyes mud drilling fishes and poison sea rambutan . The expedition notice us that the tiger boat fishing was very damaging to the sea bed near to the shore .
Trawling is the worst fishing method! Dragging the nets destroys the reefs and plants.
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@@christopherchongloi1475 AC challenger INEOS Team UK is bound for Auckland, the team look to make up for lost time.
They are flying the boat to New Zealand aboard a 1987 Ukrainian Antonov cargo plane that fellow challengers American Magic used to deliver their second race boat to Auckland
www.stuff.co.nz/sport/americas-cup/122918617/americas-cup-british-syndicate-fly-second-boat-to-new-zealand
LET'S SAVE COSTA RICA, NO TRAWL FISHING gf.me/u/y6k42y
"Trawling is the worst fishing method". You've obviously never heard of scallop dredging
@@capoople They both fall under the same thing (active gear fishing) which is illegal in most places thanks to its destruction of the corals
These nets are trying to empty the sea completely and are harming the sea
Not a single fisherman alive wants to empty the sea. They want to earn a living and still earn it in 10 years time. If you want to hear about fishermen emptying the sea go to fucking china. They have so little fish left there that they are going to argentina to fish.
@@michaelfoulis7438 you just contradicted yourself
Just confirms China needs to be wiped out
I can only hope this becomes a felony and these criminals are severely punished.
Obviously they are no criminals
@@ggeilokowski it’s terrible for the planet and killing the oceans
@@user-sx2rn5sl3m And now what? Still doesn’t change the fact there are no criminals.
@@ggeilokowski This form of fishing is illegal where i live, because it's so bad for the oceans
@@ggeilokowski it is illegal in most places since u destroy the corals. In my place they would charge you with everything possible
SEC. 87. Engaging in Unauthorized Fisheries Activities.
SEC. 93. Use of Fine Mesh Net
SEC. 95. Use of Active Gear (Pulling net behind the boat)
SEC. 96. Ban on Coral Exploitation and Exportation
SEC. 97. Ban on Muro-ami, Other Methods and Gear Destructive to Coral Reefs
(list goes on)
lets just say that you will never see daylight again since each crime gives you 1-20 year in prison and between 10k-200k dollar (yes each)
I am in the final stages of completing a documentary on behalf of Leave No Trace Brighton in the UK highlighting the effects of fishing trawlers in the ocean and raising awareness. Is there any chance i can use some of the footage in this film and credit you?
I worked on a boat in Alaska that would collect these bags from trawler boats and it did not have wheels on it. I was a deck hand and have even been inside of these nets before quite a lot. Inspecting for holes before getting them ready to send back out......sometimes there were shit loads of the wrong kinds of fish in the net and I always wondered what they looked like under water. The nets we were using I think were just close to the bottom but I don't know exactly.
Midwater nets and shrimp bets down have wheels bottom drag nets do
If you look at it even from a greedy perspective it still makes no sense as wouldn’t you want to preserve the fishery so you can continue to exploit it
The one who invented and support this kind fishing method is insane. Too much destruction of sea floor, corals ref and so on.
I don’t know why they don’t outlaw those things, they devastate the sea floor.
in many countries it is illegal however very little law enforcement
It actually helps the sea floor
What about stopping it all together, there probably are alternative environmentally friendly ways but they don't give a toss.
Absolute magic how those wheels on chains manage to stay ahead of the net mouth.
The graphic is incomplete , on actual trawl gear the ground gear ( chain or bobbins in this case ) extends longer and is attached to the bottom of the trawl doors and is shorter than the foot rope of the net itself .
Green Peace is right, just came to say it.
Sometimes
I realy don't know about all Greenpeace's works, but this time fella, they are right
How about we just let people destroy this Earth?
We Human will at some point go exctint, and many other animal species, and then a couple of thousands or million years later we would see a Earth that thrives (if any other animal doesnt become intelligent)
They're wrong about most things.
Broken clock something something twice a day.
This size isnt nothing.
Real size of sea harwestor is 400m x 200m. And catching all of them all of them !
This dude just said 400m x 200m 💀
@@colbyillies9567 He did and he is not far off.
The nets can be very large as big as 240 metres wide and 160 metres deep but the mesh size in the mouth of the trawl are huge sometimes as big as 50 metres long.
@@panathasg13 I understand this and I am a fisherman myself but I have not once heard of anyone using a net the size of 400m x 200m. Then again it depends what boards they are using for there spread so I guess its possible but it would have to be a bloody big boat for that kind of gear.
The fish just gave up at the end, they just helped themselves into the net
Idk why fish are like that but I think it's because they are just naturally curious creatures and they don't know that it's a threat to them because of coarse nets aren't part of the ecosystem. Whenever I clean my fish tank sometimes my fish will swim right into the net while I'm trying to pick up dead plants and I have to wait till they swim out.
kind of cute ngl D:’
*clown fish shows up*
Bottom trowling: why the fuck do I hear boss music¿¡
so this is how marlin and dory got caught in a net in real life
Trawling is the worst legal fishing method. Not only does it destroy the bottom and its ecosystem (plant life, corals, reefs, etc.) but it also kills more bycatch than target fish. All of the bycatch thrown back is usually out of season or too small but because they've been pressed in the net from the weight of all the other fish and out of water so long by the time they get thrown back they're either dead or dying and the birds pick them off on the surface. And it's legal. Thank god they seriously curtailed the amount of trawlers on long island (and now theyre mostly mid and top water trawlers for squid and bunker) and the marine life has recovered a lot.
This has to be banned to save environment and future life of everyone
Yes
Why? It cleans the bottom.
@Kayak & Coastal Fishing fishing is more pretty much the marine equivalent of hunting wildlife. Fish farming is well, farming.
@ its destroying their nursery ground and other species that maintain sea floor and above environment
100%, this is not a sustainable form of harvesting from the Oceans
How this would work if there are tons of debris at the bottom of the sea?
They avoid it. The machine is massively strong and can pull boulders. The design can also bounce over smaller things. The flounder may jump off the bottom but most can't get out of the way of a wide net. I dived Cape Cod bay for a few years gathering scallops until a scallop dragger came. I could see their GPS put them in a perfect pattern with very small gaps between the drags. Like a plowed field. It changed a sea garden of tv and refrigerator sized scattered boulders scattered with weeds and full of life, to a pool table desert. They were there until it wasn't enough to make any money catching. Five years later the bottom was still barren with only sand dollars. I would look for large rock patches with a sounder. Rocks a big as a truck. They dump there as they nets would foul on them. I would find a few scallops and lobsters then. If a net was badly snagged it would be cut free and catch and kill anything not small enough to swim through the net They kill forever as they don't rot but usually get so full of debris they end up buried in the sand. They essentially ruin the habitat for decades. There were some party charter flounder boats in summer that went out of business as the catches are dismal once the dragger was done wrecking the bottom. The bottom doesn't support an ecosystem for decades. The bottom becomes current swept hard sand.
@@paulgraham6353 Trawling is nothing like dredging .
Fishing gear is vastly expensive , we do not deliberately tow over hard bottoms trawling , netting would not stand up to that kind of punishment , hopper or bobbin nets like in video will only pass over smooth round boulders that are semi submerged in mud or sand , if the curve of the boulder is larger than the diameter of the hopper disc it will be scooped up , simple physics . Nor do we tow around weed . weed clogs the meshes and stops the small particles of sand passing through , as the sand builds up it becomes very heavy , we use trawl doors to spread the net , and as the sand builds up in the codend because of the weed , the trawl doors lift off the bottom and the net loses its spread and stops fishing.
Perhaps Paul you should find a scallop dredging video and post your comment on it .
If trawling does "potentially ruin the habitat for decades " perhaps you can explain how come we have traditional fishing grounds ? surely if you are correct no trawler could ever return to the same area " for decades " think about it .
Lost fishing gear is usually called ghost nets , or creels . Where i live in the world creels , or their ropes rather ,are continually drowning Basking Sharks and Minkie Whales , yet there is a push to make our coasts static gear only , a push by creelmen , in 35 years trawling I have never caught either , I know of one trawler that has once , and at least 30 occasions where static gear has .
Our target species is Prawns , we avoid fish , to do that we tow at 2.5 knots allowing any fish to be able to swim back out of our net. we have 160mm mesh in the cover , and 200mm square panel in the extension . Fish boats tow upwards of 3.5 knots .
@@jonathanmcallister3611 Its good that at least one person knows what they are talking about, unfortunatly people belive these cartoons, because thats all they are. They bear no resembalance at all to a properly set up otter trawl. (and no its not used to catch otters). We are for ever seeing computer generated films of trawls crashing into reefs and wrecks , smashing them to pieces, they are about as accurate as most other cartoons.
@@jonathanmcallister3611 I totally agree with what you said about trawling. Howver where i live there are a lot of creels. They are mostly inshore where there is little danger of losing them. Gear set a few miles offshore to catch brown crabs can get towed away by trawlers. This is mostly EU trawlers who dont give a shit about us. Any british trawlers going to these areas phone the creel fishermen and get the posotion of their gear. If they do snag someones creels they always phone to say where is is located so that it can be retrieved. Most creel skippers are perfectly decent and would never leave old gear in the sea to rot and "ghost fish" there are a handful of skippers who leave gear on a bit of ground because it is old and they dont want to dispose of it, This is the main cause of ghost fishing. If the gear dumping by the few boats could be stopped it would be a huge help.
This had to be banned,
I wonder if referring to them as living creatures carrying out their ecological purposes would have a different affect on viewers rather than referring to them as seafood.
Yeah it's too bad plastics in the ocean are not getting hauled out like this.
Jason Ingram haha we catch lots of intresting trash dont you worry
Here in Scotland we have a scheme called " FISHING FOR LITTER " the majority of us are bringing ashore all plastics that we catch , and its working .
@@jonathanmcallister3611 Good to hear, i know a lot of spanish and french vessels dump stuff in the sea while scottish boats are bringing tons of litter back which has been caught in the nets
how about the corals?
Can’ pull over coral, would rip the trawls, we only pull in the gulf where its all sand bottom, or muddy bottomed canals. plus, the fish are fine that have to be thrown back, its illegal to keep most fish caught in a trawl, only shrimp and baitfish.
can’t*
They dont go over coral as it rips the nets - people go on about "it destroys the coral" when this is made up to make trawling sound barbaric
Imagine if we hunted deer the same way. Dragging large heavy "nets" across the ground through forests using huge aircraft. Catching and killing every kind of animal in its way, while also devastating the very forest itself. Preventing any short term chance of recovery.
I support farming, hunting and fishing. But bottom trawling is simply short sighted, destructive and not needed. But as long as it's legal and there is money to be made, of course people will keep doing it.
@John johnson Well yes, obviously. I wrote that to try to visualize what bottom trawling is doing to the ocean floor. Most people only see the surface, easy to forget that even what we can't see is very important.
they dont kill every animal in the net. The net gets to the ship then they can throw out the un edible fish
How about don't fish at all general chicken. Fish never bothered you but the Mercury in them will
Because fishing is fun
How would you like getting your living took from you
This ruins the seafloor...
"What about the unwanted by catch mermaids 🧜♀️🧜♀️ sea-turtle, sea-lion, dolphin, and whales?”
Your not gonna catch a whale or dolphin lmao
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C'mon
@@garrettt5699 it happens all the time with nets
@@garrettt5699 the ship i used to work in often caught dolphins and turtles in the net. We never did anything but release them, but a friend of mine said they ate a dolphin that was caught in their net.
Looks like it tills the ocean floor just right for future plant growth!!
Exactly
How is this still legal
We should be at the level of farming for all our seafood needs not decimating our landscape for some fillet-o-fish
The majority of farmed fish is not only unhealthy for you, but generally also and environmental nightmare wherever the pens are held, or when they’re regularly breached and the invasive fish species escape into the natural environment.
Who's going to see if the floor are scratched 👀
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If you search for trawling on RUclips, you will only find videos that are years and years old. No one is talking about this!!!
It will destroy the whole under water ecosystem
suraj basumatary incorrect
@@jackc7521 care to explain?
superharryboy there’s rollers on the net that are designed to roll over coral, in addition it would be an investment to tow over coral without rollers, new nets every week nobody has the money for that
we discovered 5% of the ocean and your said? hahahaa
@@jackc7521 Actually trawlers dont go over coral at all becuase it will tear the nets, if they wanted to trawl there it would be banned anyway
How is this a legal way to catch, I live in a community that had our traditional method banned by the Supreme Court because it had the potential to be too effective.
Wow.. and the corals has a lot of damage.. nice one🤔
Yet another mis informed idiot. Trawlers never trawl on coral reefs because it damages the nets. They trawl on sand mud and rock. How the fuck can you damage sand? All is does is kick some sand up which immediately falls back to the bottom and does no harm. Maybe listen to an actual fisherman rather than an armchair expert who knows fuck all about fishing.
@@michaelfoulis7438 I’m writing a scientific paper of the effects of trawling. Not only _do_ fishermen trawl where there is coral (mainly on seamounts), but there are still large amounts of organisms in sandy and muddy bottoms. The problem isn’t that you’re damaging the sand itself, you’re damaging everything that lives in it. Trawling is severly impacting benthic habitats, and many fishermen don’t care because they earn money from it.
Once man finishes destroying the Oceans, life on this planet will slowly cease to exist. This planet does not exist without Ocean life and its function.
sustainable trawling has been going on for 200 years on the same fishing grounds .
Correct, In the north sea there are plenty of fishing areas which can be trawled every few days. All the fish dont gather in one tight area. What the trawlers take from the area is soon replaced by fish which are moving.
Please tell me what one is easier, killing a tied up sick cow with a fully automatic m60 or cruising around in big fishing boat in a nice calm harbour at everyone else’s expense?
Okay so you have bad feelings for trawling what about trolling?
this gear is destructive
Those trawlers were Chinese trawlers. Adern is in cahoots and is well aware of the Debt Trap Deplomacy awarded to the Chinese to pay that debt with depletion of seaford stocks, and land to pay said debt.
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and we wonder why fish species are going extinct
And I had to throw a fluke back at 18.5 inches..
We all just watched this for our school essays
just watched for geo week
Feel like a nerd now but i was lowkey interested lmao
Report team, team is trawling!
They disrupt the internet I'd say get rid of this method!!
Don't order halibut for dinner.
Time to stop these archaic methods of fishing. A complete ban for 10 years in uk waters would allow recovery
It’s sad, we ear sea food but now we are destroying their habitat also
A si trabajan las redes debajo, del agua, se llama pesca de arrastré,,, Barcos Camaroneros.
TELL ALL THE FISH TO 🇸 🇼 🇮 🇲 🇩 🇴 🇼 🇳
Doesn't look very viable I'm the long run.
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This isn’t the only way
Huge damage.
Ridículo. Isso acaba destruindo corais, peixes pequenos e várias vidas presente nesse ecossistema.
Quite a damage to fish population , big & small, no escape !
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I am smurching
Old people always stays on the bow of the xebec😃
And it destroy the ocean floor
This way of fishing destroys the aquatic ecosystems so it's not recommended if you want to fish for a while keep doing this and there won't be any fish left
Not a single UK fisherman wants that. They want to earn a living and still have that living in 10 years time. If you want to learn about fishermen cleaning the sea go to CHINA. They have no fish left and are going to argentina at the other end of the fucking pacific to decimate there too.
There was fishermen at the beginning of time and there will be fishermen at the end of time so STFU
Oceans going dead sooner than you think
Destruye fondo marino the Best machine
I saw it all in Finding Nemo.
You cant do this come on!,
Yes you cant
Ban bottom trawling, because if the sea died we died...
Jose, are you sure ?
Very sure...
Dede desaparecer esa herramienta de pesca
Outlaw all industrial and commercial fishing in the wild oceans and seas worldwide. Do it NOW!!!
isn't this one is illegal!? or just my country?
i would call this looting
Why not increase the productivity of net fishing? After casting the net into the ocean, reduce the number of times needed to pull the net up to check, by simply launching a mini robot (toy sized) submarine with multiple waterproof cameras and sea torches linked to a weather resistant cable to the boat. The sailor simply via remote control which sends signal via the cable to move the robot mini submarine underwater to check the the level of fishes in the net. This will significantly reduce the number of times the empty net needs to be trawled up onboard and recast thus maximising efficiencies, reducing risks of net tears, reducing injuries and eliminating unnecessary labour. Please feedback to management.
Because it would take about a day to process the haul and when hauled it would he half dead, they do 4 or 5 hour trawls for this reason.
Why not ban trawling and protect our sea beds.
Nice video..good
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That's how all these as$0£0€=$ damage all the ocean kelp and reefs.
Yet another mis informed idiot. Trawlers never trawl on coral reefs because it damages the nets. They trawl on sand mud and rock. How the fuck can you damage sand? All is does is kick some sand up which immediately falls back to the bottom and does no harm. Maybe listen to an actual fisherman rather than an armchair expert who knows fuck all about fishing.
Do you surf fish cus if you do you'll understand you idiot. If you dont shut the Fuck up. And if you don't have a proper way to say things or explain. Well then SHUT THE FUCK UP
absolutely despicable
Please take some action and stop this
As a fisherman myself it makes my blood boil to see these trawling nets, however yelling into the void as a virtue signal helps nothing.
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The world needs to expand existing animal habitats on both land and in the oceans by 100x. Too much development of the land is taking away animal and natural habitats and too much fishing and netting is destroying and depleting the ocean. The human population has doubled since 1980s and it is continuing to grow out of control at a logarithmic rate. See the world population websites if you don't agree. Our planet has not grown to adjust to the human growth, so we as humans must learn how to balance our population and our dedicated land for Farming and living for humans, and habitats for animals. Natural and animal habitats must be protected and increased in size or the only animals we will have left are on farms and zoos. We must do this now before it is too late and the passage of time and human greed erases all animal and natural habitats. Most people are narrow minded and think we can just live together however man in most all scenarios destroy habitats so there is no living together side by side.
The Earth could easily support our population, especially with modern technology. The problem is capitalism. We need to, as a global society, ditch the fantasy of infinite economic growth and start living within our means again, like we did thousands of years ago. We don't even need to ditch our tech and go primitive, if anything our modern insights would make living in concert with nature easier. It's 100% a problem with the people in power, and their endless quest for more money at the expense of everyone and everything else.
@@concentratedcringe Nice try at a pivot from the fact that the Oceans are becoming depleted due to industrialization of massive fishing vessels from mostly China and other countries that have not limits on fishing. Industrial fishing and commercial fishing need to be outlawed.
@@conanthedestroyer7123 What in my comment made you think I excluded China, or that I don't oppose the hyper-industrialised global fishing industry? The shit those cunts are doing is exactly the sort of short-sighted locust mentality that capitalism encourages (and yes, China is a capitalist country). What I was saying is that linear economies (which includes every country on Earth) aren't sustainable, and capitalism encourages that.
Intelligent design will figure it out
Done.. nice...
Worst!!! It'll just destroy the bottom.
LET'S SAVE COSTA RICA, NO TRAWL FISHING gf.me/u/y6k42y
Yet another mis informed idiot. Trawlers never trawl on coral reefs because it damages the nets. They trawl on sand mud and rock. How the fuck can you damage sand? All is does is kick some sand up which immediately falls back to the bottom and does no harm. Maybe listen to an actual fisherman rather than an armchair expert who knows fuck all about fishing.
This is totally rong I protest
One day the biggest pest in the world will disappear and everything will go back to normal
Ban nets....
They ban alot of things in this world....and somewhere out there is people who will still do it illegally because they don't care about the law. However yes, this method shouldn't be done.
Mais modo de acaba com a fauna do mar
This is illegal method
THAT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL!!!!!!!!!
Its not that nice. Its very destructive
C ce que l’on appelle racler les fonds..moi je direz plus tôt détruire..
Racler? ,moi je ne vois pas ça, une drague ,ok,.pour vous appeler draguer ?
CRIMINAL!!!!!
Stop it
Rastro de destruição no fundo do mar , acaba com espécies pequenas sem valor comercial e acaba com o alimento depositado no fundo .
Trawling is the most bad idea for fishing..
Make it illegal,i dont care if people loose their job over this
And this is how how sea turtles are killed
Trawling should be forbidden all over the world.
Yah Right this trawling fishing is the number one thing destroy a coral reaf!
LET'S SAVE COSTA RICA, NO TRAWL FISHING gf.me/u/y6k42y
Yet another mis informed idiot. Trawlers never trawl on coral reefs because it damages the nets. They trawl on sand mud and rock. How the fuck can you damage sand? All is does is kick some sand up which immediately falls back to the bottom and does no harm. Maybe listen to an actual fisherman rather than an armchair expert who knows fuck all about fishing.
Asian definitely do it, because they eat all kinds of seafood even the weird ones
Wow that was pretty rascist
Europeans did it too dumbass. Go ask the English. If you search “bottom trawling” on RUclips, most of the suggestions are westerners fishermen.
@@jackdunstone7646 nah, its fax
@@ggeilokowski it’s facts that you are a cousin loving dumbass with 0$ in your savings 😂😂😂
the only way is to TOTALLY STOP THIS BS METHOD
Should be illegal. People doing this are destroying the ocean.