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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The bottom trawling fishing technique is more harmful to the environment than previously thought, according to a new study. While it has long been known that this method captures fish indiscriminately ...

The Bering Sea is seen from space on May 15, 2002, in this satellite image captured by NASA's SeaWiFS Project. Varying shades of green indicate the presence of plankton blooms. Bottom trawling is ...

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 ...

Fish under commercial size are thrown into the sea, but only after they have been killed under the weight of the others. To make matters worse, by stirring up marine sediments, trawl nets disturb an ...

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 ...

Small- and large-scale fishers report an increase in the volume and variety of fish species in the Patos Lagoon and the coast of Rio Grande do Sul state. Such abundance came after a bill banning ...