End Bottom Trawling
Download a two page briefing on Bottom Trawling (pdf)
Bottom trawling is to the ocean
what forest clearcutting is to land
— Amanda Vincent
References in the briefing
[1] There are an estimated 83,000 trawl vessels in the member countries of the Asia Pacific Fisheries Commission alone; Funge-Smith, S., Briggs, M. and Miao, W. (2012) Regional overview of fisheries and aquaculture in Asia and the Pacific 2012. FAO RAP Publication, Bangkok. pp. 154.
[2] Amoroso, R. O., Pitcher, C. R., Rijnsdorp, A. D., et al (2018) Bottom trawl fishing footprints on the world’s continental shelves. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(43):E10275-E10282.
[3] Sumaila, R. & Cheung, W. W. L. (2015) Boom or Bust: The Future of Fish in the South China Sea. Vancouver, Canada: Fisheries Centre, The University of British Columbia.
[4] Amoroso, R. O., Pitcher, C. R., Rijnsdorp, A. D., et al (2018) Bottom trawl fishing footprints on the world’s continental shelves. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(43):E10275-E10282.
[5] Noranarttragoon 2014 as cited in Sadovy de Mitcheson,Y., Leadbitter, D. and Law, C. (2018) History, profiles and implications of feed fish and fishmeal supply from domestic trawlers in the East and South China Seas. Final Report to ADMCF. pp. 131.
[6] Changing Markets (2019) Fishing for Catastrophe. Changing Markets Foundation, Netherlands. pp 46.
[6] Guo, 2015 as cited in Zhang, W., Liu, M., Sadovy de Mitcheson,Y., et al (2020) Fishing for feed in China: Facts, impacts and implications. Fish and Fisheries 21(1):47-62.
[7] Dureuil, M., Boerder, K., Burnett, K. A., Froese, R., & Worm, B. (2018) Elevated trawling inside protected areas undermines conservation outcomes in a global fishing hot spot. Science 362(6421):1403-1407.
[8] Foster, S.J. (2020) Seahorses as an index of global fishing pressure. Project Seahorse.
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