Glenn Skinner, a commercial fisherman and the executive director of the North Carolina Fisheries Association, explained ...

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 ...

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.

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

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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 ...

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 disturbs the ocean floor, researchers found. Critics question whether “trawl disturbance” is different from the carbon flux that naturally occurs in oceans. By Georgina Gustin ...

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