See the press release here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-proposes-to-extend-ban-on-destructive-bottom-trawling
And see a trawler in action with associated bycatch: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/bottom-trawling-…
Featured Bycatch Species
Data from the Northwest Atlantic suggests that the thorny skate began declining in the early 1980s and accelerated in the early 1990s (Burgess et al 2005).