Large volumes of fish and other marine life are routinely caught in bottom-trawl nets used to sweep the seabed. Charities say the unintended bycatch is a particular problem in prawn trawl fishery ...

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Bottom trawling is the practice of dragging an open ... species like sharks and dolphins face the most danger of becoming “bycatch”—animals unintentionally captured by fishing equipment.