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 British Government has been told to introduce a complete ban on ocean bottom trawling in its waters, as a former ...

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 ...

More than 90 percent of Britain’s offshore marine protected areas (MPAs) are still being bottom-trawled and dredged, two years after an analysis of the extent of destructive fishing exposed them as ...

Government ministers say that the UK will not implement an outright ban on bottom trawling, despite pledging to do so earlier this year ...

Cornish fishermen would like to meet the new environment secretary to discuss concerns over the future of their industry. A consultation on extending a ban on bottom-trawler fishing to cover more ...

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 ...

During the past month, he said, six trawlers engaged in illegal fishing were seized from Balochistan’s maritime limits, an action that was widely welcomed by local fishermen. In addition, 245 banned ...

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 ...