A bill to ban shrimp trawling in North Carolina’s sounds died Wednesday at the hands of the state House of Representatives. ... rather than scraping across the sea floor and causing damage.

Large areas of the Bering Sea off Alaska's coast will soon be off-limits to bottom trawling, a practice involving fishing vessels that drag big, weighted nets across the ocean floor. Come Monday ...

Lawyers from environmental organisation ClientEarth say the ruling is likely to have a positive impact on other legal cases on bottom trawling happening across the EU.

The plan, which will be subject to a consultation with those in the marine and fisheries sector, would see bottom trawling - dragging large nets along the sea floor - banned across about 30,000 ...