That being said dragging is one of the most harmful things we are doing to our oceans.There is the by catch then there is the habitat destruction.Bottom trawls destroy the bottom.My last few years they outlawed our bottom nets and made us ditch our rock gear.They have been taking huge steps in trying to clean up the fishery.One of the problems is that the trawl fleet is reely owned by the norwegians and they could give a rats ass what we or our government thinks.They do what they can get away with.I lucked out and worked for two Icelandic Bossuns under an American skipper.Villy would of thrown me overboard if I behaved as you saw in that video.I quit when the weegies bought our company and fire Villy and Toby just because they were Icelandic.I have absolutely no love for the square heads in the trawl buisness.Used to call them fcn L7s.
More of the world eats fish than eat beef.The world does need to eat.People are not going to work out there for free.This is reality folks.
Flame on.
No one is saying the world doesn't deserve to harvest precious marine resources to eat. The stewards among us are just demanding that it be done in a responsible, less destructive, less wasteful, SUSTAINABLE fashion.
What the trawlers are doing to the marine ecosystem is flat out UNSUSTAINABLE.
It MUST stop.
The sooner the better.
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