Perhaps one of the most contentious environmental issues, the extent to which the world’s oceans were being depleted and ransacked by giant fishing fleets, was explored earlier this year in the Netflix documentary, Seaspiracy.
Before this, much of the dealings of the world’s corporate fisheries was little known about.
Conservationists, however, have been following what are known as supertrawlers — huge fishing verses capable of harvesting thousands of tonnes of fish in a single expedition — for years.
In 2019, Sea Shepherd, an international marine wildlife conservation organisation, sent out patrols for its Operation ByCatch just off the Atlantic Coast of France and recorded what they encountered.
Following a German supertrawler, the ‘Anne Hillina’, the team found a path of death and destruction left in the ship’s wake.
Using a drone, at 150 metres high, patches of thousands of dead fish were found, “killed for no reason”, the footage’s narrator said.
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