Midwater trawling

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Midwater trawling is

benthic

trawling.

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Midwater trawl

In midwater trawling, a cone-shaped net can be towed behind a single boat and spread by trawl doors, or it can be towed behind two boats (

rockfish

Whilst midwater trawling does not damage the seafloor (like bottom trawling), the method is not perfectly selective and results in relatively high levels of discards of unwanted catches.^[1]

References

^ Pérez Roda, Maria Amparo; Gilman, Eric; Huntington, Tim; Kennelly, Steven James; Suuronen, Petri; Chaloupka, Milani; Medley, P (2019). A third assessment of global marine fisheries discards (PDF). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. p. 78. Retrieved 18 October 2023.

FAO Fisheries: Midwater Pair Trawls

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