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 ...

World Conservation Congress (WCC) has adopted a resolution intended to end bottom trawling in international seamounts by the ...

Government ministers say that the UK will not implement an outright ban on bottom trawling, despite pledging to do so earlier this year ...

More than 90 percent of Britain’s offshore marine protected areas (MPAs) are still being bottom-trawled and dredged, two years after an analysis of the extent of destructive fishing exposed them as ...

In New Zealand, the stay-or-go debate over orange roughy fisheries encapsulates the tensions in the relationship between humans and the deep sea.

A consultation on extending a ban on bottom-trawler fishing to cover more marine protected areas (MPA) is currently ongoing. Fishermen fear restricting where they could catch would be economically ...

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 ...

A U.S. district court judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by conservation NGO Oceana challenging bottom trawling in the ...

Greenpeace wants a ban on industrial fishing in all of the UK's protected marine conservation areas - Copyright AFP Rafael MARTINS Greenpeace wants a ban on ...

The British Government has been told to introduce a complete ban on ocean bottom trawling in its waters, as a former ...

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 ...

Cornish fishermen would like to meet the new environment secretary to discuss concerns over the future of their industry. A consultation on extending a ban on bottom-trawler fishing to cover more ...