A small trawler usually employs five workers; a bigger one, eight to 10. Budi used to be a small-scale fisher like Zulkifli, but he went bankrupt and sold his boat because his catch was dwindling ...

industry and small-scale fisheries”. Oceana Chile recalls that in 2015 there was a first big step to end bottom trawling, by prohibiting its practice in the 117 existing seamounts in Chilean ...

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Bottom trawling is causing deforestation on the seabed, campaigners have warned as they push for widespread bans on the fishing method across the UK and Europe. Several leading ocean organisations ...