Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fishing vessel Gold Rush, which harvests pollock and other groundfish, is docked on Oct. 3, 2022, at Trident Seafood's Kodiak ...

Costa Rican fishermen are calling for an investigation into the Costa Rican Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture (INCOPESCA) for attempting to reintroduce trawling. Small-scale fishermen from ...

Trawling for fish? You might be setting yourself up for a paltry haul next time. Glenn Perrigo, CC BY-NC-ND Trawling – dragging heavy gear over ocean bottoms in search of fish near the sea floor – is ...

The spring trawl harvest for whiting is underway off the Northwest coast in an unusual year when a crucial marker of success won’t just be nets stuffed with fish but crews that stay healthy and free ...

For too long, fishery management has favored outside trawl interests while rural Alaskans bear the consequences.

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Roughly a quarter of all wild-caught seafood is brought to market using a fishing method called bottom trawling, in which ...

Bottom-trawl fishing provides about a quarter of global seafood but is controversial. The heavy nets and dredges that are used to catch species like cod, plaice and scampi also disturb the seabed and ...

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 ...

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 up everything in its path. Previous research has ...

THE sky is still black when Tim Maricich eases the Donna Kathleen out of Morro Bay, a fishing town in south-central California. The vessel yaws in the waves, a child’s toy in the expansive Pacific ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Marine biologists have been raising concerns about bottom trawling for years. The fishing technique involves a boat dragging a weighted net along ...