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 accidental capture of pregnant rays in fishing trawls harms their unborn babies. Rays often get tangled up in trawling nets dragged behind boats to catch large volumes of fish. They are usually ...

NOAA Fisheries violated federal law by allowing corals, sponges and other seafloor habitats in the Gulf of Alaska to be damaged by unchecked bottom trawling, a lawsuit filed Monday by environmental ...

Legal shrimp trawling could be returning to Costa Rican waters with a new bill up for debate in the Legislative Assembly. The Bill for the Development and Sustainable Exploitation of Shrimp in Costa ...

Destructive bottom trawling fishing, which involves dragging large nets along the seafloor, could be banned across more vulnerable areas of English seas under new Government proposals. Marine and ...

More than a quarter of the wild seafood that the world eats comes from the seafloor. Shrimp, skate, sole, cod and other creatures — mostly flat ones — that roam the bottom of the ocean get scooped up ...

A majority of lawmakers this week supported President Carlos Alvarado’s veto of a controversial project that would have authorized trawl fishing in Costa Rican waters. “A large majority of the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Marine biologists have been raising concerns about bottom trawling for years. The fishing technique involves a boat dragging a weighted net along ...

Destructive bottom trawling fishing, which involves dragging large nets along the seafloor, could be banned across more vulnerable areas of English seas under new Government proposals. The groundswell ...

Using satellite tracking data, researchers have come up with new maps showing the impact of trawling in 24 regions around the world. Trawling produces a sizable portion of the world’s seafood but is ...