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.
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.
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.