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Trawl net on the sea floor

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Watch black-and-white footage from a camera mounted on the bottom of a trawl net. It clearly illustrates the damage that the heavy net and the rollers on its base can do to life on the sea floor.

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Source: NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
 

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Gerard Hutching and Carl Walrond, Marine conservation – Fisheries, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/5818/trawl-net-on-the-sea-floor (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Gerard Hutching and Carl Walrond, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 September 2015.