Here's what our trawl samples from the plastic soup our ocean has become look like.

Midwater trawling is trawling, or net fishing, at a depth that is higher in the water column than the bottom of the ocean.

The dogger takes its name from the Dutch word dogger , meaning a fishing vessel which tows a trawl.

Trawl nets can also be modified, such as changing mesh size, to help with marine research of ocean bottoms.

I showed him and Maria a zooplankton trawl from the gyre north of Hawaii with more plastic than plankton.

And Brian then went on to even greater risk to get this never before made photograph of a trawl net scraping the ocean bottom.

Trawl doors are available in various sizes and shapes and may be specialized to keep in contact with the sea bottom (bottom trawling) or to remain elevated in the water.

A similar agreement has been concluded with FAO and the Institute of Marine Research in Norway for cooperation in, and co financing of, a project dealing with fisheries and living marine resources trawl assessments and management.

These factors include restrictions on trawl fishing from 1991 followed by its total prohibition in 1993 the imposition of seasonal restrictions on fishing of certain commercially important species and the standardization of gill net mesh size for various species.

And we trawl, which means to take something the size of a tractor trailer truck that weighs thousands and thousands of pounds, put it on a big chain, and drag it across the sea floor to stir up the bottom and catch the fish.

And we trawl, which means to take something the size of a tractor trailer truck that weighs thousands and thousands of pounds, put it on a big chain, and drag it across the sea floor to stir up the bottom and catch the fish.