How is it helpful to have uneducated people attempt to come up with an insightful simile on something they know nothing about?
Please educate yourselves before commenting upon my way of life like this.
Well managed Bottom Trawling can be a safe and sustainable way of reducing unemployment and providing food and income to the people of our country.
How do you think that piece of Snapper, Terakihi or Gurnard got to your local supermarket/fish and chip shop? It was most likely caught by a bottom trawler.
I agree that certain types of bottom trawling should have stricter controls put in place, but generalising like this doesn't help anybody in the long run.

bottom trawling is like being skinned alive

Samuel Beckett, a great compassionate genius who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1981, said that there appeared to be no degradation to which humans would not stoop, but he would not have been aware of bottom trawling at the time. There must be a view that if you have enough money you can go to another planet when this one becomes uninhabitable. Me, I'm going to stay and go down with the rats.

"When you want to bring in a haul,
You try to bottom trawl,
But you don't seem to see,
In the seas there'll be,
No creatures, no life at all"

Bottom Trawling is like cutting down the whole orchard to harvest the fruit

Breaking the jewels of the ocean...

Bottom trawling is like shaving your face with a ride on mower!

This is not a simile but a rhetorical question:
WOULD YOU PLUCK YOUR EYEBROWS WITH A LAWN-MOWER?!

Bottom trawling is like.... Bringing down a historic building with a wreaking ball.

Bottom trawling is like.... Driving a tank through a garden of sunflowers.

Bottom trawling is like war.

Bottom trawling is like using a suicide bomber to make a point. It's overkill.

Bottom trawling is like putting everyone in jail in the hopes of catching a few criminals

Bottom trawling is like cutting the workers' wages to increase the bosses'.

Bottom trawling is like imprisoning a whole city just to catch a few criminals.

Bottom trawling is like overthrowing the governments of two middle eastern countries in the hope of catching Osama Bin Laden.

Bottom trawling, -- like demolishing my home to find that last chocolate!

Bottom trawling,-- like burning our forests to eradicate possum....

Bottom trawling is like digging up a forest park with a bulldozer in order to collect a few worms.

Bottom trawling is like a slow death...painfull but you know that soon there will only be memories of what was.

Bottom trawling is like using napalm to grill a couple of steaks

Bottom trawling is like shaving your hair off to catch the head lice.

Bottom trawling is like using Mr T to unlock a door.
I pity those bottom trawling fools.

If everyone fished like this, how many oceans would we need?

Bottom trawling is like filleting a whitebait with an axe.

Bottom trawling is like plowing a field then not planting a crop!

When bottom trawling began on a small scale the fishermen would fish an area out then move on to another area. Today, we have run out of other areas and those fished out take many decades to recover. This is not good farming practice!

Because the fishermen don't own the land they plunder, they don't worry about the consequences.

Bottom trawling is like hunting a family of mice with rocket launcher.

bottom trawling is like killing five flocks of beautiful sheep to get one lamb steak. yuck.

Bottom-trawling is like shaving your legs with a machete!!!

"Does my by-catch look big in this?"

Bottom trawling is shortsighted and leaves no hope for future generations.
Please think of our Children and their children and also the Children of the sea.

The Bootom trawlnets remember us the "Wondyrchoun" machine, during the Edward III reign...."The Great and Long Iron of the Wondyrchoun Runs so heavily and hardly over the ground when fishing that it destroys the flowers of the land, below the water and also the spat of Oysters, Mussels and other fish upon which the great fish are nourished. By which instrument in many places the fishermen take such quantity of small fish that they know not what to do with them and they feed and fat their pigs with them, to the great damage of the common's of the realm and the destruction of the fisheries".... some things almost never change!

Bottom trawling is like destroying Fiordland National Park to catch a takahe(to eat).

Bottom trawling is like destroying Te Papa to remove that floating ball of granite in the foyer

Bottom trawling kills the dog to get the flea.

Bottom Trawling is like deploying email viruses - just plain stupid!

Bottom trawling is like using a crowbar to pick your nose.

Bottom trawling is like smashing down the Beehive to take the flag off the top.

my goodness this stuff causes such grievous damage. keep up the great work, folks

Bottom trawling is like mowing your vege garden

Bottom trawling is like a big bad giant, destroy everything around. Bottom trawling is a nightmare for the living down there.

Bottom trawling is short-term focused and sweeps through an area destroying the under-sea landscape much the same as an avalanche does on a mountain side.

If fish were birds then bottom trawling would have killed us all by now.

Please, save the Pacific ocean...this is the only world we've got!

Bottom trawling is like a cosmic black hole sucking up and destroying everything in its way.

When we bottom-trawl we don't need intelligence or sophisticated technique, it's like we can give a bunch of blokes shotguns and cannons. We only cause a little collateral damage.

Bottom trawling is just like gold mining on a much larger scale!!! Except instead of sifting out useless dirt - you're eradicating beautiful coral reefs which are home to the fish you're trying to catch....Leaving you.......a bit fat nothing in the future to catch!! You do the math - find a better way or just stop altogether and find a meaningful way to exist!!!

Bottom Trawling is like War of the Worlds.

Millions of species under the sea were here before man, what gives us the right to eradicate life when we ourselves, make no attempt to form a relationship and friendship with this world.

Bottom trawling is like chopping down a tree to pick an apple.

Bottom Trawling is like open cut mining a mountain for a couple of diamonds.

Raech

Keep up the great work guys!!

Bottom trawling is like smashing all of the eggs in the hen house in the hopes of finding the one with the chicken in it.

Bottom Trawling is like killing the populations of Africa, Asia, Europe,the Americas, the South Pacific etc in the hopes of eradicating Hiv/Aids.

Not only is the logic behind bottom trawling extremely stupid and greed-based, but it harms us and the earth immensely, and gives the future populations of earth very little to work with.

Bottom trawling is like spraying the whole garden for a few small weeds.

Bottom Trawling is like using your lawnmower to vacuum your carpet

Bottom trawling is like burning the haystack to find the needle.