Impressive video of a RCAF rescue helicopter extraction from the Raw Spirit, a large trawler that is often in #portalberni. It was 100km south of Haida Gwaii, (so 200km north of Vancouver Island? ). Waters were reasonable calm for this time of year!
#rescue #rcaf #comox #fishing #trawling #safety
https://albernivalleynews.com/2026/01/27/video-canadian-armed-forces-search-and-rescue-crews-rescue-fisher-near-haida-gwaii/

Unique videos show how #trawling restrictions bring back life to the sea https://phys.org/news/2025-10-unique-videos-trawling-restrictions-life.html paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.72091

"The marine wildlife in #Kosterhavet National Park has changed rapidly in recent years... Trawling restrictions not only benefit #fish and #shellfish; #anemones and #corals are also becoming more common"

3-Oct-2025
Unique videos show how #trawling restrictions brings back life to the sea

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1100643

#science #ecology #marineBiology #conservation #fisheries #seafloor

While smaller and medium-sized sardines and mackerels are priced low, larger specimens still command a modest premium due to demand. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/sardine-mackerel-prices-plummet-as-fish-supply-surges-in-kerala-i9i5djfd?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #KeralaFish #FishPrices #Trawling

Journal of Fish Biology Associate Editor, and winner of the Huntingford Medal, Sofia Graça Aranha, now talks to us about deep water #sharks and their vulnerability to #trawling in #DeepSea #fisheries. Sofia sampled 10 trips of a crustacean trawler. 18 species of shark were found as #bycatch and 1559 individuals. 95% were either dead or dying. Through modelling, some really important properties of the most deadly trawls to deep sea shark were found #FSBI2025

"Oceans with David Attenborough" is now on my must watch list, and I strongly recommend it be added to yours.

"the camera follows the chains of a bottom trawling net to the ocean floor. In the blue-green murk, it is a scene from a horror movie."

“It smashes its way across the seabed, destroying nearly everything in its path..."

#Attenborough’s new film is bringing audiences to tears, and one voice has gone silent in its wake: the global fishing industry.

Bottom #trawling is indefensible.

#Ocean #OceanFilm #BanBottomTrawling
#Ocean #Ecosystems

https://archive.ph/V95gR

How #DavidAttenborough's #film will get #bottomtrawling #banned
🧐"bottom #trawlers hv been working at #sea for more than a century, but nobody had ever seen tis scene before. No diver wld survive where te #cameras were.. It is a nightmare vision of #massdeath & #destruction..
The worst of it is tt while the #official #UN goal is to have 30% of the world’s #oceans in ‘maritime protected areas’ by 2030, most of those #MPAs still allow #bottom #trawling."
#filmastodon #UNSDG
https://www.saltwire.com/newfoundland-labrador/gwynne-dyer-how-david-attenboroughs-film-will-get-bottom-trawling-banned

#trawling #Ocean #DavidAttenborough #NationalGeographic #DisneyPlus
"Ocean with David Attenborough airs Sunday 8 June at 8 pm on National Geographic and streams the same day on Disney+, and is available in select cinemas now."

See the petition to end bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas. 👇

End Bottom Trawling in MPAs – Revive Our Ocean
https://reviveourocean.org/end-bottom-trawling/

#trawling #Ocean #DavidAttenborough #NationalGeographic #DisneyPlus
"Ocean with David Attenborough airs Sunday 8 June at 8 pm on National Geographic and streams the same day on Disney+, and is available in select cinemas now."

Ocean with David Attenborough | Never-Before-Seen Bottom Trawling Footage | National Geographic
https://youtu.be/KkD8itD9mbo?si=XtZQXxE5AvpB9SAU

#trawling #Ocean #DavidAttenborough #NationalGeographic #DisneyPlus
"Ocean with David Attenborough airs Sunday 8 June at 8 pm on National Geographic and streams the same day on Disney+, and is available in select cinemas now."

“This Hit Me In The Guts”: World-First Footage Shows Fish Swimming For Their Lives As Trawlers Close In

“This is something that doesn't have to happen in our marine protected areas. It could end tomorrow, if we choose it to, and it would be...".
https://www.iflscience.com/devastating-impact-of-trawling-revealed-in-world-first-footage-of-marine-animals-fleeing-nets-79370

Devastating Impact Of #Trawling Revealed In World-First Footage Of Marine Animals Fleeing Nets
“This is something that doesn't have to happen in our #marineprotectedareas. It could end tomorrow, if we choose it to, and it would be to the benefit of every living thing on the planet,” director Toby Nowlan told IFLScience.
"This hit me in the guts. Being at the level of the net and seeing all these poor creatures trying to escape the net."-Enric Sala
https://www.iflscience.com/devastating-impact-of-trawling-revealed-in-world-first-footage-of-marine-animals-fleeing-nets-79370
https://archive.ph/2vAQm

Devastating Impact Of Trawling Revealed In World-First Footage Of Marine Animals Fleeing Nets

“This is something that doesn't have to happen in our marine protected areas. It could end tomorrow, if we choose it to, and it would be to the benefit of every living thing on the planet”

A 2017 study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that #trawling the #ocean floor can strip it of up to 41 percent of the seabed fauna, a loss in #biodiversity that can take over six years to recover. Around a quarter of all wild-caught #seafood is caught using trawlers each year, giving you an idea of the scale of this destruction, but it goes further still.

In fact, the damage we are doing to the seas is even visible from space. You see, each time a #trawler descends its net and charges across the seabed, it stirs up billowing plumes of sediment, creating trails of devastation that have been photographed in #satellite imagery. Some sediment trails span tens of kilometers, and each marks the destruction of an ecosystem that can take years to recover.

https://www.iflscience.com/devastating-impact-of-trawling-revealed-in-world-first-footage-of-marine-animals-fleeing-nets-79370

World-First Footage Shows The Devastating Impact Of Trawling As It’s Happening https://www.iflscience.com/world-first-footage-shows-the-devastating-impact-of-trawling-as-its-happening-79168

#ocean #environment #ships #fishing #trawling #BanBottomTrawling

Dramatic Footage Captures the Impact of Bottom Trawling on the Ocean Floor https://petapixel.com/2025/05/12/dramatic-footage-captures-the-impact-of-bottom-trawling-on-the-ocean-floor/ #nationalgeographic #davidattenborough #naturedocumentary #trawling #fishing #natgeo #News

“After almost 100 years on the planet, I now understand the most important place on Earth is not on land, but at sea,”
-- Sir David Attenborough

This bloke is not only a Legend but is a genuine Global Treasure.

https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/at-99-david-attenborough-shares-strongest-message-for-the-ocean/
“If we save the ocean, we save ourselves,” says Sir David who this weekend admitted in an exclusive interview with The Times that he “won’t get to see the ocean’s recovery and restoration” but that the ‘young children seen playing on the beach today’ very well may do. At the very least, they will get to witness “perhaps the most consequential time for the human species in the past 10,000 years.”

*This glorious bloke plants many trees for distant children to shelter and pause under.*

#Ocean #Earth #Climate #Water #Hope

#Trawling has "history" stretching back to (at least) the fourteenth century. (apparently) By 1600 it was widespread and practiced large distances from shore.

Attempts have been made to control its damage since the #Tudors

Attenborough at 99: naturalist ‘goes further than before’ to speak out against industrial fishing in new film - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/01/ocean-david-attenborough-trawling-fishing-industry-film-documentary "The celebrated presenter warns of ‘modern day colonialism at sea’ as he highlights the destruction caused by #overfishing and bottom #trawling" a true hero; UK gov should listen

Bottom trawling in European waters costs society up to €11bn a year, new study finds.

A first-of-its-kind study released today found that this cost is largely due to carbon dioxide emissions from disturbed sediments on the seafloor.

The study is the first to measure the full economic cost of bottom trawling in European waters - including the EU, UK, Norway and Iceland.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250325-bottom-trawling-in-european-waters-costs-society-up-to-11bn-a-year-new-study-finds?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Seabed #CarbonEmissions #Carbon #Trawling #Sea #Ocean #Fishing #Europe #EU #UK #Norway #Iceland

The #Ocean faces increasing threats from human activities. At the #UN Ocean Conference 2025, we urge governments to:

1. Ban offshore #oil and #gas exploration and phase out existing #fossil fuel extraction;
2. Reduce vessel speed to protect #whales;
3. Ban destructive fisheries eg bottom #trawling;
4. End #plastic pollution, addressing the full life cycle of plastic;
5. Ban deep-sea #mining
6. Protect marine habitats and enforce #conservation measures.

https://action.wemove.eu/sign/2024-6-because-our-planet-is-blue-EN?akid=s5569047..2Mt9Pv

_The Evening Post_, 7 March 1925:
THE OYSTER SEASON
FIRST CATCH LANDED
HOW THE TRAWLERS WORK
An excellent haul of “the first #oysters of the season” was made by the #Bluff #trawling fleet on Tuesday last, a total of four small steamers being engaged in the task, and returning to port laden with luscious bivalves.
The fleet made for the main oyster beds between Dog Island and the island of Ruapuke. These beds are always tried out at the first of the season, for they lie in shallow water … and it has been found that the shallow water oysters are the best, being hard-shalled [sic], large, and plump. The sea-floor of Foveaux Strait is covered from the western to the eastern extremity with huge oyster beds.…
The beds having been reached after 1½ hours steaming, the crew of five men on each boat commenced the serious work of the day. The boats began to steam slowly up against the tide at four knots per hour, and the dredging gear was got ready. There are two dredges on each boat—one forward arid one aft. They are worked both on the same side of the boat, and are slung over the side on half-inch wire rope running through derricks attached to the fore and mizzen masts.…
[A detailed description follows]
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19211217.2.79.20
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Fishing #Southland #FoveauxStrait #NewZealand