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. As a result ...

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 ...

Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan introduced an updated bill last month that would require new monitoring and bycatch regulations in ...

Bottom trawling in European waters costs society up to €10.8 billion each year, according to a first-of-its-kind study released today. It found that this cost is largely due to carbon dioxide ...

The General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) has partnered with the Spanish government to test semi-pelagic ...

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 ...

"This process is catastrophic to fish, their homes, their food chains, pretty much everything." ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Bottom trawling is a practice used by commercial fisheries around the world in which a large, heavy net is dragged along the ocean floor to scoop ...

Fishing fleets around the world rely on nets towed along the bottom to capture fish. Roughly one-fifth of the fish eaten globally are caught by this method, known as bottom trawling, which has been ...