2.In the 1970s, for instance, West Coast trawlers were landing 11,000 tonnes of bocaccio a year.In 2001, just before the fishery was closed, the catch was 214 tonnes.
3.In the Gulf of Mexico, trawlers ply back and forth year in year out, hauling vast nets that scarify the seabed and allow no time for plant and animal life to recover.
11.Hundreds of thousands of trawlers scrape the ocean bottom and they remove everything in their path leaving devastation behind and its annihilation fishing pure and simple, and it has to stop.
12.Trawlers (which drag large nets through the water and along the ocean floor) and longline fishers (which can deploy thousands of hooks on lines that can stretch for miles) take a heavy toll on turtles.
13.We know that the outlook is grim: stocks collapsing on the front lines of climate change, warming seas, dying reefs, catastrophic storms, trawlers, factory fleets, rapacious ships from richer countries taking more than their share.
14.And they didn't stop there: within five years, they'd secured legal rights from the state to manage over 200 square miles of ocean, eliminating destructive industrial trawlers from the waters.