The damage done to the sea bed and the mortality rate of non scallops caught is not worth us eating them. I lost count how many star fish were caught in that dredged net .
Davis Redmond actually it is proven that it regenerates bottom and promotes growth and produces feed for micro organisms. If you take a 2' sample in a tube off the bottom of the ocean and study it, there will be black soil (dead soil, no oxygen). If you take the same sample off a Dragging bottom there will be no black soil. Yes I was a part of this research. Dragging is very good for the bottom.
What about the countless studies that have been done that show that biodiversity is decreased in bottom trawled areas? Or how about the ones that show that communities shift from sessile, suspension feeding organisms to mobile, scavenging species after trawling? I've done plenty of research on this topic, but I would love to read your study.
I think you can do this with a limited sized dredge to catch a limited amount for personal consumption in New Zealand. It's totally illegal in the Scottish Highlands. That's the limited knowledge on the matter 👍🏴
Iv been at commercial fishing all my life and so have my ancestors coming from Shetland. I had a near identical queen dressed on my old boat 28ft 46hp but want to try a smaller version on my new Shetland 535 with75hp outboard but no winch so would it be viable lifting by hand or any ideas? Thought about acgurdy thru avblockv?
All I know is what the biologist and us have discovered from the marine institute here where I live. We do bottom cultured mussels and coahogs, after studying bottom that we have cultivated ourselves we found that it is healthy for the bottom, promotes oxygen, feed and sustainability.
Wow, I'm trying to learn and this is first video that comes up on RU-vid. So get this cage...saw 3 on Craigslist and drag across bottom on scallops area. Seems illegal but reading comments guess it's okay.
