Oceana Chile recalls that in 2015 there was a first big step to end bottom trawling, by prohibiting its practice in the 117 existing seamounts in Chilean waters, which house unique ecosystems and ...

A bill to ban shrimp trawling in North Carolina's sounds died Wednesday at the hands of the state House of Representatives.

Bottom-trawling in the deep sea likely unsustainable. Between 1950 and 2015, bottom trawls caught about 25 million tons of 72 fish species at depths greater than 400 meters ...

And deep-sea trawling doesn't account for all that much fish. Even including the extra unreported catch Palomares predicts, her work shows that deep-sea bottom trawling provided less than 0.5 ...

A fishing boat on the North Sea. “It’s wiping out biodiversity, it’s wiping out things like deep sea corals that take hundreds of years to grow,” one of the study’s authors said of trawling.

Fishing trawlers that scrape the seafloor with nets are altering the submarine landscape and may affect sensitive marine ecosystems, according to researchers. Likening the effect of bottom ...

Deep sea trawling threatens ecosystems. Tuesday, 10 February 2004 AFP. Deep sea fishing could affect biodiversity, especially if heavy chains are dragged along the ocean floor (Image: NOAA) ...

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 ...

Bottom trawler, fishing boat sailing along the North Sea coast silhouetted against orange sunset in front of Nieuwpoort, Flanders, Belgium. (Arterra/Philippe Clément/Universal Images Group via ...

Species of fish and the ecosystems that sustain them are being destroyed by deep-sea trawling, a new report warns. Fish species, some new to science, are being "decimated", according to the report ...

Alaska Pollock slide into a holding tank aboard the Northern Hawk factory trawler on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023 in the Bering Sea. Each haul of the net can be more than 100 metric tons of fish.

Environmental groups welcomed the Bush administration’s promise this week to push for an international ban on bottom trawling in the deep sea and other “destructive” fishing practices.