Sentences with phrase «nets along the sea»

Trawling for crustaceans burns the most fuel because of the large amounts of engine force required to drag thin - meshed nets along the sea floor.

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At other sites, boats dragging anchors and nets — or just scraping along the sea floor — have damaged or destroyed reefs.
April 23, 2018 • Using historical data and estimates from deep - sea trawls that drag nets along the ocean floor, researchers estimate that millions of tons of catch have gone unreported in the last 50 years.
They were once found all along Portugal's coastline, herding fish into nets, retrieving lost equipment from the sea and taking messages between ships and back to shore.
Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd, who founded the organization in 1977, says that the group plans on sending two large vessels into Libyan water, along with several scouting boats, to cut the nets set out by fishermen.
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