Beam trawls are also associated with high amounts of bycatch – unwanted fish and other organisms – although the industry and researchers are working on ways to reduce this.

Although the beam trawl is still very extensively used by both sailing and steam vessels, it is rapidly being superseded by the beamless trawls. These have a greater spread of net, and therefore ...

The Maryland Department of Natural Resource is moving forward with its shrimp pilot program that could be a financial boon for the state. The department recently announced it is working with the ...

WASHINGTON, April 11. -- For the first time in the history of American fisheries a report of a successful attempt to take fish by beam trawling has been received, and its reception inspires the ...

The Shrimp Pilot Program permit will allow a participant in possession of a Maryland Unlimited Tidal Fish License or Unlimited Finfish Harvester License to use a 16-foot beam trawl that meets the ...

But a giant saber tooth tiger's tooth caught in a beam trawl recovered by a fishing vessel Or a Neanderthal skull Even more startling the projection of what it was like at the time at the end of ...

For a long time researchers and the industry have been trying to improve trawl fishing practices. Things have moved on from practices such as beam trawling – where a large net is dragged across ...

For a long time researchers and the industry have been trying to improve trawl-fishing practices. Things have moved on from practices such as beam trawling – where a large net is dragged across ...