Consultation to consider extending ban on destructive bottom trawling fishing - Governments, business leaders, scientists and campaigners are gathering for the third UN Ocean Conference in Nice on ...

Part of the seabed off the Jurassic Coast is "still recovering" from the effects of bottom trawling 17 years after it was ...

On Monday, June 9, as the third United Nations Ocean Conference gets underway in Nice, France, President Emmanuel Macron ...

Bottom-trawling ships deploy huge weighted nets — up to half a mile (0.8 kilometers) in length — that scour the ocean floor to scoop up shrimp, crab, cod, halibut and other fish. Scientists ...

With a single film clip, he has signed the death warrant for one of the world’s most destructive industries: bottom trawling. The companies and countries that do it will go down fighting and it ...

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Bottom trawling dubbed ‘marine deforestation’ as activists push for sweeping ban Several ocean campaign groups are calling on governments to ban the damaging fishing practice ahead of a ...

Bottom trawling shreds the seafloor. It may also be a huge source of carbon emissions. Dragging nets along the ocean bed wrecks marine life, but researchers can’t agree on how bad it is for the ...

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Commentary authors Margie Brown and Mark Niver write that they see benefits to legislation to ban bottom trawling in Alaska’s ...

A new paper refutes previous findings on the amount of CO2 released from the seabed by bottom trawling. The previous paper made significant headlines around the world on release in 2021 ...