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 ...

The world’s oceans are massive and critical carbon sinks that absorb roughly one-third of the greenhouse gas emissions humans generate by burning fossil fuels and reshaping Earth’s landscape. New ...

A heavy metal net is dragged across the seafloor at breakneck speed, churning up dark clouds of sediment and swallowing everything in its path. A blue-spotted stingray tries to flee, flailing its ...

Roughly a quarter of all wild-caught seafood is brought to market using a fishing method called bottom trawling, in which weighted nets are dragged along the seafloor to catch cod, haddock, hake, ...

Idaho Today brings you a never-before-seen video of the effects of industrial trawling on the ocean floor. World Ocean Day reminds us that the smallest to the most devastating actions will have ...

Bottom trawling is a polarizing fishing practice that involves dragging heavy nets and equipment across the seafloor. Davide Pischettola / NurPhoto via Getty Images A controversial fishing method may ...

When it comes to news about fishing, bottom trawling sparks some of the most dramatic stories. In September, for instance, Greenpeace activists took it upon themselves to drop 18 boulders weighing up ...

Environmental NGOs Oceana and ClientEarth are filing a lawsuit with Spain's national high court for permitting bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), a practice they claim violates EU ...

A controversial bottom-trawling experiment that a federal agency has designed for the Northern Bering Sea will not be conducted this year, a decision that was welcomed by tribal and environmental ...

A new “atlas” reveals widespread illegal bottom trawling inside Mediterranean marine protected areas. The atlas, an interactive online map, shows thousands of days of apparent bottom-trawling activity ...