This month Federal Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn said he doesn't think a moratorium is the most effective way of protecting marine species vulnerable to the huge nets that sweep along the ocean floor. Oh Loyola for goodness sakes! -  even Geoge Bush was in favour of the UN moratorium on this. BC fishermen drag the bottom of the sea to send things like sable fish (black cod) to Japan and kill many other useful fish and sea creatures in our haste to make short-term profit at the expense of our future.  Bottom trawling involves dragging huge, heavy nets along the sea floor.