Family warning sign at French Creek harbour on Vancouver Island BC Canada. SCO 11,302.
Since 1965, the French Creek Marina has grown to become so much more than just a marina. It's your destination for camping, trailering, boating, diving, all things marine and marine is a bottom trawler ( dragger), and why are fish harvested by bottom trawling not even remotely sustainable? A bottom trawler is simply a large fishing vessel that drags a vast, weighted net along the bottom of the ocean with the intention of capturing bottom-dwelling fish. Picture a barefoot child dragging a butterfly net along the bottom of a shallow pond in an attempt to catch tadpoles. Now imagine that same net horribly magnified, capable of catching 11,000 kilograms of fish in one gulp. Bottom trawling is simply dip-netting on a mad scale. Bottom trawlers are particularly unsustainable for three reasons: they catch a great deal of fish and thus guarantee over-harvest, they are nonselective in that many nontarget species are unintentionally caught, and they damage habitat by directly contacting the ocean floor.
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Location: French Creek Fishing Port, Vancouver Island. British Columbia. Canada.
Photo credit: © David Gowans / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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