1. Industrial trawlers and draggers are scraping the sea floor like bulldozers, taking everything in their path.

2. It all started in the #s with the invention of the freezer trawler and the ocean factory freezing draggers

3. Boatyards There have been many Boatyards throughout the estuary that provided commercial fishermen with draggers or trawlers, garveys, skiffs, dories, and other watercraft used in both the bay and the ocean.