BOTTOM TRAWLING

a unique experience

The crew of the fishing boat Zlatoperka invites you to experience something very special at sea: the bottom trawling. It is a method of fishing that involves towing a fishing net called trawl along the sea floor and that is practiced in the autumn/winter period i.e. from October to February. Spending some hours at sea in our company, you will learn everything about trawling – from the very casting of the the net to hauling it in. At that point you will begin to discover the colourful contents of the net: the most diverse fish species, lovely hippocampi, octopuses, squids, cuttlefish, sponges, sea-squirts, sea mice, brittle stars and other echinoderms, crabs and many other living organisms, but unfortunately also things that definitely shouldn't be found on the seabed.
The excursion, which is suitable especially for 6th grade primary school pupils and for students of colleges and technical schools, can be a useful complement to biology lessons (marine ecology, marine living organisms etc.). Our multi-year collaboration with the Ljubljana College of Agro-Industrial Technology, the Paramedical School of Ljubljana and the »Jože Plečnik« high school of Ljubljana is evidence of the quality of the program which arouses great interest and participation among the students. The duration of the study excursion is 2-3 hours. Subject to prior agreement, it can be followed by a panoramic trip allowing the students to view the Slovenian coast from a different angle.