Glenn Skinner, a commercial fisherman and the executive director of the North Carolina Fisheries Association, explained shrimp trawling, a method of harvesting shrimp.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trawling would leave "little buffer between the trawl nets and the high-relief coral mounds," he told TCPalm. Shrimping also would stir up muddy sediment that could blanket the reef, Reed said.