Public urged to back ban on destructive fishing in protected areas - The Government is holding a consultation on banning ...

North Carolina shrimpers defeated a trawling ban, for now. But opponents, competition from imported seafood and challenges ...

Shrimp trawling kills too many fish and damages marine habitats, critics say. Those who do the work say it’s a job and a ...

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 ...

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 heavily ...

Trawling is a form of fishing that involves pulling a large, durable net attached to a boat. The net - often made of synthetic fibers - reaches close or touches the ocean floor to scoop up fish en ...

As well as threatening fish stocks, a recent paper Mayorga co-authored studied the movements of over 20,000 bottom trawling vessels worldwide and found that by dredging the carbon-rich sediment on ...

It's called the halibut excluder — a scary name for a nifty device, especially if you're a hapless halibut caught in a cod trawl net off Kodiak Island.

Trawling usually refers to some form of industrial fishing. Basically, it is a big net that is dragged behind a boat. There are bottom trawlers that drag the net along the bottom catching ...

This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.. Bottom trawling, a common fishing practice where large nets ...

The spring trawl harvest for whiting is underway off the Northwest coast in an unusual year when a crucial marker of success won’t just be nets stuffed with fish but crews that stay healthy and ...