Researchers say that seabed life in Lamlash Bay is now about three times as abundant as it was before bottom trawling was ...

You might remember newspaper articles in 2021 claiming that towing nets over the seabed to catch fish (known as bottom trawling) releases as much carbon as all flights taken each year. It turns out ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - One House bill has fueled some controversy after passing in the Senate. House Bill 442, intended to open the red fish and flounder fishing seasons again, has now also put ...

A new law banning trawling and scalloping in an area off the Sussex coast has been approved by the government. It means a zone of 101 sq miles (164 sq km) off Beachy Head which is home to ...

A new paper refutes previous findings on the amount of CO2 released from the seabed by bottom trawling. The previous paper made significant headlines around the world on release in 2021, as it equated ...

More than a quarter of the wild seafood that the world eats comes from the seafloor. Shrimp, skate, sole, cod and other creatures — mostly flat ones — that roam the bottom of the ocean get scooped up ...

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala will impose its annual 52-day trawling ban from June 9 midnight to July 31 midnight as part of ...

The fillet of flounder sitting on your plate comes with a severe environmental cost. To catch it, a ship running on fossil fuels spewed greenhouse gases as it dragged a trawl net across the seafloor, ...

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 ...

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 ...