As many of you many know I have been working on some video to portray the beauty and diversity of deep sea mounts and the devastation caused to them by deep sea trawling. I stumbled upon an old news article from New Zealand in which I found a great quote by Steve O’Shea on deep sea trawling -
In effect, it’s the same as trying to herd cows up with a net and dragging a net through a farm. You catch a few cows. You catch the farmers wife. You catch a cattle trough. All this other stuff is incidental bi-catch, filth, bottom filth they refer to it. We just don’t do that on land. Why are we doing it in the oceans?
