(CN) - Over the objections of hook-and-line anglers, the 9th Circuit on Monday upheld a quota system meant to increase the efficiency and sustainability of the Pacific groundfish fishery. Click here ...

(CN) - Hook-and-line fishermen urged the 9th Circuit to overturn new federal regulations that give 90 percent of the Pacific groundfish catch to large-scale companies. U.S. fishing quotas are governed ...

Andrew Frederick Johnson received funding from NERC UK for this work and currently works for Scripps Institution of Oceanography funded by the Gulf of California Marine Program. Trawling – dragging ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. By Louis Daniel and Jack Travelsted A flotilla of about a dozen shrimp trawlers ...

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 ...

Small- and large-scale fishers report an increase in the volume and variety of fish species in the Patos Lagoon and the coast of Rio Grande do Sul state. Such abundance came after a bill banning ...

Environmental groups urged the United Nations on Monday to ban so-called bottom trawl fishing in international waters, calling the practice the most destructive fishing practice on the high seas. In ...

Oceans not only provide important ecosystem services, including climate regulation and nutrient cycling, but they also serve as a major contributor to food and jobs. Yet human actions in the oceans ...

Deep-sea trawling smoothes out the wrinkles of canyons on the continental slope, making marine mountainsides look more like ploughed fields, changing the habitat of deep-sea creatures. The process ...

"It's a whole new way of looking at what's in the ocean." In this undated file photo, a large group of yellowfin tuna is shown in the waters off Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Italy. Giordano Cipriani/Getty ...