Rick Stein

The South Coast is not teeming with fish any more; there are no fleets of trawlers left. Small local boats land their fish daily and often sell it at the back of the beach, a scenario repeated all the way from West Bay to Whitstable.

English Chef

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

I spent three weeks on a converted shrimp trawler with 17 people, two toilets, and one shower, all the while diving every day with very active sharks.

American Journalist

Paul Watson

In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses.

Canadian Environmentalist

Eric Cantona

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

French Actor

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

Used to describe the fishing industry, specifically referencing the boats involved.

Occupation Link

It implies a specific fishing method using nets, which can be controversial due to environmental impact.

Fishing Method

Primarily used in a maritime context, often related to coastal economies.

Maritime Context

Connotes a diligent search, often for rare or specific items.

Seeker Nuance

Implies collecting or searching in bulk, not just one or two items.

Large Quantities

Used metaphorically in academic or information-gathering settings.

Research Context

 not a grocery store we we can't continue to take without expecting serious consequences as a result that's what I wanted people to know I also wanted to show people how fish are caught because again I don't know that everybody would would understand that and one of the most common methods of the world for fishing is something called a bottom trawler now this was a small one that I

Brian Skerry: Ocean Soul...

 it sort of occurred to me that the ocean's not a grocery store, you know. We can't keep taking without expecting serious consequences as a result. I also, with the story, wanted to show readers how fish are caught, some of the methods that are used to catch fish, like a bottom trawler, which is one of the most common methods in the world.

Brian Skerry reveals...

 but they all are, so it's a little like the Wild West. And there are two main types of fishing in the high seas. At the bottom and near the surface. Bottom trawling is the most destructive practice in the world. Super trawlers, the largest fishing vessels in the ocean,

Let's turn the high seas...

 and much more valuable alive than dead. All of these parts are part of our life support system. We kill using long lines, with baited hooks every few feet that may stretch for 50 miles or more. Industrial trawlers and draggers are scraping the sea floor

Sylvia Earle: How to...

 When the adults go out to sea, they're getting hooked on long line and trawler fisheries and this has caused a great decline in the population and now climate change is bringing that home to their chicks. So it's really the last nail in the coffin.

Baby Albatross Encounter...

 once our brave young puffin hits the water it'll stay at sea for two to three years protecting itself from natural hazards like storms and predators and man-made hazards like oil spills and nets of fishing trawlers even though our

Nesting Puffin PIPE...

Baby Puffin's First Swim...

 can't be pulled on deck and his contents are sucked into the ship with a vacuum supporters say it's an effective way to harvest schools of herring detractors say the trawlers are depleting herring in some areas and

Herring Hazards PIPE...

 in countries where the state is often unable to help. We know that the outlook is stocks collapsing on the front lines of climate change, warming seas, dying reefs, catastrophic storms, trawlers, factory fleets,

How a handful of fishing...

 these parts are part of our life support system we kill using long lines with baited hooks every few feet that may stretch for fifty miles or more industrial trawlers and draggers are

Trawler