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 marine sediments that bottom trawlers stir up like underwater rototillers are the largest storehouse of carbon on the planet. Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images ...

A recent study provides the first detailed map of Cambodia’s coastal seafloor habitats and finds that simple, low-cost ...

Conservation NGO Oceana has filed an appeal challenging the dismissal of its lawsuit to block bottom trawling in the Gulf of ...

Overfishing has dire consequences for ocean health and for the millions of people who depend on fish for food and well-being. Globally, catch has been steadily declining since the 1990s. It's a trend ...

FOSTER CITY, Calif. — Federal fishery regulators voted Wednesday to permanently ban trawl fishing in nearly 300,000 square miles of Pacific waters, a move environmentalists hailed as a landmark in ...

Costa Rican fishermen are calling for an investigation into the Costa Rican Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture (INCOPESCA) for attempting to reintroduce trawling. Small-scale fishermen from ...

The fishing vessel Gold Rush, which harvests pollock and other groundfish, is docked on Oct. 3, 2022, at Trident Seafood's Kodiak plant. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Alaskans are all too ...

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 ...

The spring trawl harvest for whiting is underway off the Northwest coast in an unusual year when a crucial marker of success won’t just be nets stuffed with fish but crews that stay healthy and free ...

European Union fisheries ministers struck a deal on Saturday on 2026 fishing quotas, avoiding an earlier proposal to tighten ...

A recent illegal fishing incident in the Eastern Aegean involved seven Turkish trawlers operating in Greek waters near ...