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 ...

New report finds that just two Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) out of 113 in the UK ban bottom-trawl fishing across the whole ...

Organisations will come together to target fishing practices such as bottom trawling in Europe's Marine Protected Areas ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust has joined environmental campaigning charity Oceana UK in calling for a ban on bottom-towed fishing ...

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 ...

The party says its 'Drink Swim Fish' election policy programme will deliver clean drinking water, swimmable rivers and healthy oceans for all New Zealanders.

Oceana report warns failure to impose ban on bottom trawling in protected areas poses severe threat to dolphins, porpoises, ...

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 ...

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.