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Bottom trawling is trawling (towing a trawl, which is a fishing net) along the sea floor. It is also referred to as "dragging". Bottom trawling can be contrasted with midwater trawling (also known as pelagic trawling), where a net is towed higher in the water column. Trawling is done by a trawler, which can be a small open boat with only 30 hp (22 kW) or a large factory trawler with 10,000 hp (7,500 kW). Bottom trawling can be carried out by one trawler or by two trawlers fishing cooperatively (pair trawling).


===MSP Challenge 2050:===
===MSP Challenge 2050:===

Revision as of 09:54, 13 April 2018

Bottom Trawl Catch
Layer Info
Category Fishing
Editable No
Data Source Ecosystem simulation
Values
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Description:

Bottom trawling is trawling (towing a trawl, which is a fishing net) along the sea floor. It is also referred to as "dragging". Bottom trawling can be contrasted with midwater trawling (also known as pelagic trawling), where a net is towed higher in the water column. Trawling is done by a trawler, which can be a small open boat with only 30 hp (22 kW) or a large factory trawler with 10,000 hp (7,500 kW). Bottom trawling can be carried out by one trawler or by two trawlers fishing cooperatively (pair trawling).

MSP Challenge 2050:

Bottom Trawl Catch is a month-by-month, computer generated data layer following the fishing efforts by this fleet calculated by the ecosystem simulation.

The Bottom Trawl fleet mostly catches the following species:

  • Flatfish
  • Commercial gadoids
  • Demersal fish
  • Large benthic invertebrates
  • Cod
  • Demersal predators
  • Many other species in (very) small amounts

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