@transformbottomtrawlingcoalition has launched a new report examining the relationship between industrial bottom trawling and food security, based on nine case studies across Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, Oceania, and North America.
Across all case studies, bottom trawling was found to reshape food systems: restricting access to important fishing grounds, diverting nutrients away from local diets and marginalizing small-scale and post-harvest livelihoods. While industry narratives emphasise efficiency and employment, interviews with small-scale fishers highlight a stark structural displacement: the efficiency of industrial trawling often comes at the cost of the nutritional stability and food sovereignty of coastal communities. Protecting food security requires shifting the narrative from “production volume” to “nutritional equity,” demanding the strict enforcement of IEZs, freezing trawling footprints and discontinuing subsidies which drive overcapacity.
Read the full report here
