Following a highly successful campaign forcing U.K. retailers to shift seafood sourcing policies last year, Greenpeace UK is focusing its attention in 2007 on banning the practice of beam trawling, calling it one of the most destructive forms of fishing.
Like all trawl operations, beam trawling is indiscriminate in its catch, and plenty of science proves it impacts the sea floor and bottom-dwelling species. But does it deserve an outright ban?
Greenpeace thinks so. The group claims for every beam-trawl caught fish, upwards of three times the amount is caught in bycatch.
