The 250 active boats in Queensland's East Coast Otter Trawl Fishery (ECOTF) catch species, including tiger prawns, Endeavour prawns, king prawns, and Moreton Bay bugs from the tip of Cape York ...

The 250 active boats in Queensland's East Coast Otter Trawl Fishery (ECOTF) catch species, including tiger prawns, Endeavour prawns, king prawns, and Moreton Bay bugs from the tip of Cape York ...

Bottom trawling is globally mainstream, responsible for a quarter of all wild-caught seafood. Many campaign organisations celebrated when Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced this month ...

But trawling stirs them up, releasing the stored carbon back into the water column. Some of this material falls back to the seafloor and gets tamped back down again.

Pulling an otter trawl is always an adventure. You never know what you will encounter and catch. Otter trawls get their name from the otter, or doors, that are rigged to keep the net open.

Other recent scientific research has also connected climate change to trawling in the fishing industry. In a May study in the journal Nature, the authors argued that previous estimates of the CO2 ...

Trawling is adding still more CO 2 to seawater, and with it more acidity. “Where this needs to be looked at a little bit more carefully is in enclosed seas, places like the Mediterranean ...

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Bottom trawling, a controversial and destructive fishing technique, releases large amounts of carbon dioxide from the seabed – and much of this gas gets into the atmosphere. Close.

Bottom trawling is one of the most widespread methods of fishing used today; some 25% of the world’s fish is caught using this method. It is highly profitable because of the substantial harvests and ...

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, as it ...