Bottom trawling – a fishing method that involves dragging large nets along the sea floor – could be banned across more vulnerable areas of English seas. The government is committed to protecting UK ...

A long-awaited report by the United Nations shows the need for an international moratorium on bottom-trawling and other destructive fishing practices that damage deep sea life. A long-awaited report ...

Kerala has banned bottom trawling from June 10 to July 31 along its coastline to conserve fish, protect traditional fishermen ...

Bottom trawlers extract one-quarter of the world's fisheries catches by weight and raise significant ecological, economic and social concerns. Given that, you'd think there would be an answer to basic ...

David Attenborough's Ocean documentary shows how filmmakers captured coral bleaching, bottom trawling, plankton and the world ...

Annual carbon emissions from bottom trawling—a popular fishing method used to capture seafood at the bottom of the ocean—is equivalent to around 40% of annual transportation emissions in the U.S., a ...

The poll found restricting bottom trawling is now the top action New Zealanders want the government to take to protect the ...

Innovative, yet simple, solution helps protect the seas from the illegal bottom trawling that ravages the seabed in protected areas. The ground of Koh Ach Sehmwas was shaking every night because of ...

Boston MA: Bottom trawling, an industrial fishing method that drags large, heavy nets across the seafloor stirs up huge, billowing plumes of sediment on shallow seafloors that can be seen from space.

Governments have reached a landmark agreement to end high seas bottom trawling in nearly a quarter of the world’s oceans. Environmentalists say bottom trawling, which destroys reefs and depletes ...

Bottom trawling is under increased scrutiny as Parliament considers a major overhaul of fishing laws. The practice involves ...