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 ...

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

Thousands of fishermen in Cox's Bazar are preparing to return to the sea as the government's 22-day ban on fishing ends at ...

NOAA Fisheries violated federal law by allowing corals, sponges and other seafloor habitats in the Gulf of Alaska to be damaged by unchecked bottom trawling, a lawsuit filed Monday by environmental ...

Destructive bottom trawling fishing, which involves dragging large nets along the seafloor, could be banned across more vulnerable areas of English seas under new Government proposals. Marine and ...

Legal shrimp trawling could be returning to Costa Rican waters with a new bill up for debate in the Legislative Assembly. The Bill for the Development and Sustainable Exploitation of Shrimp in Costa ...

A majority of lawmakers this week supported President Carlos Alvarado’s veto of a controversial project that would have authorized trawl fishing in Costa Rican waters. “A large majority of the ...

The accidental capture of pregnant rays in fishing trawls harms their unborn babies. Rays often get tangled up in trawling nets dragged behind boats to catch large volumes of fish. They are usually ...

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 ...

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