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20 examples of Trawling in a sentence

That is, we're able to save it from a fate of deep-sea bottom trawling.
So within three years, from 2003 to 2006, we were able to get norm in place that actually changed the paradigm of how fishers went about deep-sea bottom trawling.
In fact, it's thought that some of these are as much as 3,000 years old, which is one reason that bottom trawling should not be allowed.
My third little story is that I was an accomplice in the introduction of trawling in Southeast Asia.
Bottom trawling is the most destructive practice in the world.
Harmful practices, such as bottom trawling, can be banned altogether, and we can establish marine reserves closed to all fishing to help ecosystems restore themselves.
And we've been trawling them down much faster than the natural systems can replenish them.
Trawling a zooplankton net on the surface for a mile produces samples like this.
And I was luck enough to capture one of these when we were on a trawling expedition off the northwest coast of Africa for "Blue Planet," for the deep portion of "Blue Planet."
And we were using a special trawling net that we were able to bring these animals up alive.
Ridiculous, nauseating doggerel with terrible acting; ineptly, superficially, and condescendingly trawling all the most banal clichés about Tuscany and Italy, divorce and midlife.
Trawling through the Sci Fi weeklies section of the local Video Rentals store I was losing hope of finding any good movies I hadn't yet seen.
From trawling on the internet, I've discovered that there were 5 series of playing the field, of which I've seen the first 4. Series 5 was never released and I can't remember what happened in it from watching it on TV.
So-called “fishing expeditions” – indiscriminate trawling through bank accounts – remain out of bounds.
The damage is so extensive that even if trawling were stopped today, this area may need many years to recover.
This past December, we also passed the Somali Fisheries Law, which explicitly outlaws bottom trawling.
Some rich countries, such as Spain, Portugal, Australia, and New Zealand, have fishing fleets that engage in so-called “bottom trawling.”
Complex and unique ecologies, most notably underground volcanoes known as seamounts, are ripped to shreds, because bottom trawling is the “low cost” way to catch a few deep sea fish species.
Bottom trawling should simply be outlawed; it would be simple and inexpensive to compensate the fishing industry during a transition to other activities.
Aside from banning bottom trawling and establishing a global fund for avoided deforestation, we should designate a global network of protected marine areas, in which fishing, boating, polluting, dredging, drilling, and other damaging activities would be prohibited.