Long-Line Fishing Issues

Long-line commercial fishing methods generally aim to catch large fish like tuna and swordfish, but the baited hooks also attract a bycatch of a wide variety of other marine animals and can possibly result in their death. 

Trawl Gears and the Ocean Floor

Bottom trawling is a commercial fishing method that uses a large net with heavy weights and is dragged across the bottom of the seafloor, raking up everything along its path, including specific target fish and  accidental corals and bycatch.