In many places trawlers are to fishers what trucks are to cyclists, so there is some truth when people blame trawlers for destroyed reefs. Bottom trawlers in pa

In many places trawlers are to fishers what trucks are to cyclists, so there is some truth when people blame trawlers for destroyed reefs. Bottom trawlers in particular bulldoze the ocean floor, and trawler fleet are basically floating factories that operate by moving to new locations once a current location is dried up and destroyed. Trawler fleet also tend to focus on creating oil and animal feed, which mean they don't really care what they catch. Once an area is destroyed in this fashion there isn't much future for fish or fishermen. Fishermen can continue to fish or not, but without a healthy ocean floor the fish won't reproduce, the nurseries won't be there, and parasites/diseases will wreck the remaining population for decades. The best society can do is to help fishermen to move to a different profession and turn the harbor into apartments.