World Conservation Congress (WCC) has adopted a resolution intended to end bottom trawling in international seamounts by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The bottom trawling fishing technique is more harmful to the environment than previously thought, according to a new study. While it has long been known that this method captures fish indiscriminately ...

In recent times, a significant wave of support has spread across Europe, urging decisive action to eliminate the harmful practice of trawling<\/strong> within the Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).

A consultation on extending a ban on bottom-trawler fishing to cover more marine protected areas (MPA) is currently ongoing. Fishermen fear restricting where they could catch would be economically ...

Fishing campaigners say a bottom trawling ban in West Sussex could be a "blueprint of success" for other parts of the South East as a government consultation on plans to extend restrictions ends.

A U.S. district court judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by conservation NGO Oceana challenging bottom trawling in the ...

In New Zealand, the stay-or-go debate over orange roughy fisheries encapsulates the tensions in the relationship between ...

A bill to ban shrimp trawling in North Carolina's sounds died Wednesday at the hands of the state House of Representatives. Shrimpers from coastal towns rallied to oppose the bill, arriving at the ...

The Pakistan Coast Guards (PCG), in collaboration with the Balochistan Fisheries Department, have intensified joint operations against ...

During an operation in the southern seas off Galle on the night of 16 Oct 25, the Navy apprehended five (05) suspects along with a multi day fishing trawler carrying a consignment suspected to be ...