Thank you. Trawling is an extremely destructive form of fishing, leaving a path of complete destruction that will take a very long time to recover. Like clear-cutting a old-growth forest for the short-term profit of selling the wood or logging and burning a tropical forest to plant a palm oil plantation.

These deep sea creatures represent very sparse, widely separated populations and many are bottom dwellers. These rare individuals are typically old and grow very slowly because of the limited food in the deep dark, so a disruption of that ecosystem will take a very long time to heal.

Most likely, and all those fish would die even if you released them. Once they experience that change in pressure their insides basically explode even if they look normal from the outside.