Fishing with nets dragged across the seabed is causing serious harm to marine life, according to a report released by the marine conservation organization OceanCare on Wednesday. The practice ...

Bottom trawling is a fishing practice that is notoriously destructive to seafloor ecosystems. Now there’s growing evidence that it might unleash planet-warming carbon ...

Attenborough film shows seabed ‘devastation’ says MP in bottom trawling ban call - Climate leaders are set to meet in Nice, ...

FOSTER CITY, Calif. – Federal fishery regulators voted Wednesday to impose a permanent ban on trawl fishing in nearly 300,000 square miles of Pacific waters off the West Coast, a move hailed by ...

Cornish fishermen want to meet the new environment secretary to discuss the industry's future.

Mr Scoles landed about 700kg of finfish, including gurnard, snapper, rig, john dory and various other species. The total ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Hook-and-line fishermen say the government handed over 90 percent of the Pacific groundfish catch to the trawling industry in a "wholesale abandonment" of congressional plans to ...

A federal fishery agency reported last week that 10 killer whales were caught in the gear of trawl net vessels fishing this year in the Bering Sea and North Pacific waters off the Aleutian Islands.

Hundreds of people associated with the fishing industry, filled the halls of the North Carolina General Assembly, on Tuesday, June 24, 2025 in Raleigh, N.C. They came in opposition to HB 442, ...

A new analysis that uses high-resolution data for 24 ocean regions in Africa, Europe, North and South America and Australasia shows that 14 percent of the overall seafloor shallower than 1,000 meters ...

Fisheries managers allow whitefish trawlers to inadvertently scoop up halibut, crab and salmon in their nets. The bycatch rate is relatively low. But because the trawlers catch so much of their target ...