As countries commit to bans on bottom trawling, an island community in Cambodia is implementing its own method: dropping ...

CLIMATEWIRE | Dragging giant nets along the seafloor to catch fish — a practice known as bottom trawling — has long been criticized by environmentalists as destructive to underwater ecosystems. Now, ...

When fishing companies go trawling, an industrial fishing method the involves dragging a fishing net across the seafloor, they wreak havoc on the lives of countless ocean creatures. These ...

"Has the potential to trigger knock-on effects." Officials issue sweeping ban on controversial fishing practice: 'It's a ...

The only California native gamefish that remains overfished is the yelloweye rockfish, but even this is slated for recovery ...

While 37% of Scotland's waters have been designated as marine protected areas, only a small fraction have management measures in place to enforce that protection, according to environmental groups.

Idaho Today brings you a never-before-seen video of the effects of industrial trawling on the ocean floor. World Ocean Day reminds us that the smallest to the most devastating actions will have ...

The world’s oceans are massive and critical carbon sinks that absorb roughly one-third of the greenhouse gas emissions humans generate by burning fossil fuels and reshaping Earth’s landscape. New ...

Bottom trawl fishing on the high seas is the single greatest threat to highly vulnerable deep-sea environments and the biodiversity they shelter, a new report released today by WWF, IUCN, and the ...

A new poll shows a majority of New Zealanders want the fishing method of bottom trawling banned, but Oceans and Fisheries ...

KYLEAKIN, Scotland (AP) — Bally Philp hauls up his baited traps from the waters off Scotland’s Isle of Skye, checking each one methodically. Unlike most of Scotland’s coastline, these waters are ...