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Net
Bottom Trawling (Commercial)
Dragging weighted nets across the seafloor - one of the highest-yielding but most controversial commercial fishing methods.
Water: Saltwater
Difficulty: Expert
📖 Overview
Bottom trawling drags large weighted nets across the sea floor, sweeping up shrimp, cod, flounder, and every other bottom-dweller in the netss path. It is enormously productive - and enormously damaging. Trawl scars on the sea floor can persist for decades, disturbing benthic communities like clear-cut forests. Modern regulations require excluder devices, closed areas, and gear modifications to reduce impact, but the technique remains controversial.
🐟 Target Species Notes
Shrimp, cod, flounder, plaice, sole, hake, snapper, grouper.