Shrimp is one of the most popular types of seafood consumed in the United States. Shrimp trawling uses nets towed slowly near the bottom of the water. Turtle excluder and bycatch reduction devices ...

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 ...

Roughly a quarter of all wild-caught seafood is brought to market using a fishing method called bottom trawling, in which weighted nets are dragged along the seafloor to catch cod, haddock, hake, ...

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 ...

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.

Idaho Today brings you a never-before-seen video of the effects of industrial trawling on the ocean floor. World Ocean Day reminds us that the smallest to the most devastating actions will have ...

A controversial bottom-trawling experiment that a federal agency has designed for the Northern Bering Sea will not be conducted this year, a decision that was welcomed by tribal and environmental ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN initiative in partnership with Rolex. Amanda Vincent is a Rolex Awards Laureate. Every day, thousands of fishing boats around the world drag huge weighted nets ...

A controversial bill that has been making its way through the North Carolina legislature would ban shrimp trawling in sounds, rivers and within a half mile of the coast. While that bill won’t be taken ...