When fishing companies go trawling, an industrial fishing method the involves dragging a fishing net across the seafloor, they wreak havoc on the lives of countless ocean creatures. These ...

Bottom trawling is a polarizing fishing practice that involves dragging heavy nets and equipment across the seafloor. Davide Pischettola / NurPhoto via Getty Images A controversial fishing method may ...

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Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly on Thursday approved a controversial law authorizing trawl fishing, a method questioned by environmentalists and small-scale fishermen who fear the destruction of ...

New data shows New Zealand’s trawl footprint continues to cover only a tiny fraction of the country’s waters, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says.

The bottom trawling fishing technique is more harmful to the environment than previously thought, according to a new study. While it has long been known that this method captures fish indiscriminately ...

Bally Philp hauls up his baited traps from the waters off Scotland’s Isle of Skye, checking each one methodically. Unlike most of Scotland’s coastline, these waters are protected from industrial ...

Many fishing methods have negative impacts on marine life and ecosystems. Some of the most destructive include the use of gillnets, longlines, trawls, pot and trap gear, purse seines, and explosives.

Bottom-trawling is a destructive method of fishing which drags heavy nets and chains along the sea floor.

Fish school (Sarpa Salpa) with seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) underwater in Mediterranean sea, Spain, Catalonia, Costa Brava, Roses It’s been well established by now that the agricultural systems ...

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