One issue seems to cut across party lines in the campaigning to be Alaska’s next governor. Trawling and its bycatch have given candidates a handy, low risk target, and many ...

Bottom trawlers drag giant nets across the ocean floor, releasing stored CO2 and killing up to 75 percent of the marine life ...

Türkiye’s Gökova Bay shows what happens when bottom trawling is banned. What can other European countries learn? View on ...

A new study has found that bottom trawling in European waters not only carries environmental concerns but heavy economic ones ...

Greece is leading Europe in banning the destructive practice of bottom trawling, says a new study published in National Geographic.

More than 3,000 fish species have been caught in bottom trawls, with estimates suggesting the true number could be nearly double, according to the world's first global inventory. Published in Reviews ...

More than a quarter of the wild seafood that the world eats comes from the seafloor. Shrimp, skate, sole, cod and other creatures — mostly flat ones — that roam the bottom of the ocean get scooped up ...

A bill to ban shrimp trawling in North Carolina’s sounds died Wednesday at the hands of the state House of Representatives. Shrimpers from coastal towns rallied to oppose the bill, arriving at the ...

A ‘Matter Arising’ paper published in Nature today refutes the findings of a paper by Sala et al on the amount of CO 2 released from the seabed by bottom trawling. The paper made significant headlines ...

The ban around Beachy Head East MCZ brings new protections to marine life.

A bill to ban shrimp trawling in North Carolina's sounds died Wednesday at the hands of the state House of Representatives. Shrimpers from coastal towns rallied to oppose the bill, arriving at the ...