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 ...

World Conservation Congress (WCC) has adopted a resolution intended to end bottom trawling in international seamounts by the ...

The government insisted it was taking action to protect seabeds and it would be beneficial for both nature and the fishing industry. Bottom trawling involves a large net being scraped across the ...

Fishing with nets dragged across the seabed is causing serious harm to marine life, according to a report released by the marine conservation organization OceanCare on Wednesday. The practice ...

Government ministers say that the UK will not implement an outright ban on bottom trawling, despite pledging to do so earlier this year ...

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

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 ...

While the main focus is on climate change and its increasing impacts, bottom trawling is singled out for the threefold effect ...

A commercial fisherman caught out trawling an isolated marine reserve at the top of the South Island, and not submitting catch reports on time, has been fined. The jewel of the East Cape's coastline ...

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 ...

During the past month, he said, six trawlers engaged in illegal fishing were seized from Balochistan’s maritime limits, an action that was widely welcomed by local fishermen. In addition, 245 banned ...