This could provide an invaluable and urgently needed lifeline for England’s seas, which are so crucial for wildlife and climate resilience. Destructive bottom trawling fishing, which involves dragging ...

A new film, “Ocean,” by naturalist David Attenborough features never-before-seen footage of bottom trawling - a fishing practice criticised as destructive and wasteful in which heavy nets are dragged ...

It comes as pressure ramps up at UNOC in Nice, including with a satirical film featuring Stephen Fry and Theo James. Conservationists are celebrating a proposal from the UK government to ban ...

The UK government has says it want to widen a ban on a kind of fishing called 'ocean bottom trawling' in protected areas. Bottom trawling is a type of fishing that involves dragging large weighted ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marine and fisheries stakeholders are being asked to take part in a consultation on the prohibition of destructive bottom-towed fishing gear. The latest edition of Resurgence & Ecologist is out now, ...

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 ...

LONDON, June 9 (Reuters) - The British government said on Monday it planned to extend a ban on bottom trawling to protect marine life amid calls from acclaimed naturalist David Attenborough and ...

It is the latest in a stream of litigation from all corners of the EU over bottom trawling in protected zones. EU leaders are facing a fresh legal complaint over widespread destructive fishing ...

The proposal would expand the ban on bottom trawling from 18,000km2 to 48,000km2 (around 18,500 sq miles) of the UK's offshore areas that are already designated as protected. The plan is subject ...