Bottom trawling in European waters costs society up to €10.8 billion each year, according to a first-of-its-kind study released today. It found that this cost is largely due to carbon dioxide ...

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 ...

How many marine fish species do bottom trawls catch? Researchers now have a list, and it’s long, running to some 3,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new law banning trawling and scalloping in an area off the Sussex coast has been approved by the government. It means a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seabed damage caused by dredging off the coast of Scotland. Howard Wood / Community of Arran Seabed Trust ...

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 ...

Fish school (Sarpa Salpa) with seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) underwater in Mediterranean sea, Spain, Catalonia, Costa Brava, Roses It’s been well established by now that the agricultural systems ...

Greenpeace wants a ban on industrial fishing in all of the UK's protected marine conservation areas - Copyright AFP Rafael MARTINS Greenpeace wants a ban on ...

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of Alaska on Wednesday, centers on the fur seal population on St. Paul Island, ...