Bottom trawling operates by dragging large, weighted nets across the ocean floor, sweeping up most of the life they encounter ...

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 ...

Marine life was capable of recolonizing the area comparatively quickly, as seen in both the diversity and abundance of life ...

Sri Lanka’s Fisheries Minister urges Tamil Nadu's CM to ban bottom trawling, addressing ongoing fisheries conflict and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Environmental NGOs Oceana and ClientEarth are filing a lawsuit with Spain's national high court for permitting bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), a practice they claim violates EU ...

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.

A landmark agreement has been reached to end high seas bottom trawling, one of the world’s most destructive fishing practices, in nearly a quarter of the world’s oceans. Renaca, Chile – A landmark ...