I was on a research cruise a few years ago that did a bottom trawl to measure biodiversity in a certain region, and the ratio of shrimp to other species was so disheartening. In fact, that trawl caught more octopus than shrimp.
And exciting news about the acoustic releases on traps! I've used those on bottom deployments that a line and buoy above would wreck the measurement.
I find your fact-based essays very enlightening and on-point. Having been in on "educational" trawls, I knew what an amazing range of creatures are caught. This has always bothered me about commercial trawling. Any effort to reduce the damage by trawling would seem to me to be worthwhile.
I loved this piece, thank you for writing it.
I was on a research cruise a few years ago that did a bottom trawl to measure biodiversity in a certain region, and the ratio of shrimp to other species was so disheartening. In fact, that trawl caught more octopus than shrimp.
And exciting news about the acoustic releases on traps! I've used those on bottom deployments that a line and buoy above would wreck the measurement.
I find your fact-based essays very enlightening and on-point. Having been in on "educational" trawls, I knew what an amazing range of creatures are caught. This has always bothered me about commercial trawling. Any effort to reduce the damage by trawling would seem to me to be worthwhile.
Thanks for your comment, and the coffee donation. I'm going to have one today.