Bottom trawling is an incredibly destructive method of fishing that involves dragging weighted nets across the seafloor. It causes wide scale damage to our oceans, but New Zealand fishing companies still use it both locally and internationally.

Bottom trawling is trawling (towing a trawl, which is a fishing net) along the seafloor. It is also referred to as "dragging". The scientific community divides bottom trawling into benthic trawling and demersal trawling.

Bottom - or demersal - trawling is a fishing method that uses towed nets to catch fish and other marine species living on or close to the seabed. Bottom trawling includes several different types of fishing gear that use a cone-like net with a closed end (cod-end) that holds the catch.

Bottom trawling is a widespread industrial fishing practice that involves dragging heavy nets, large metal doors and chains over the seafloor to catch fish.

Bottom trawling is a fishing method using towed nets to catch fish and other marine species living on or near the seabed. Bottom trawling includes several different types of fishing gear. These gears use a cone-like net with a closed end (cod-end) that holds the catch.

Bottom trawling is a fishing method that involves one or two boats dragging large, weighted nets across the seabed. Fishers use trawls to catch species that live on or close to the seafloor such as cod, hake, shrimp, octopus, mullet, halibut or anglerfish.

Bottom trawling destroys far more ocean habitat than any other fishing practice on the West Coast. In this fishing method, large weighted nets are dragged across the ocean floor, clear-cutting a swath of habitat in their wake.