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 ...

Eight in 10 adults in the UK (81%) think bottom-trawl fishing should be banned in marine protected areas, according to a new poll from ocean charity Oceana UK. The poll found that in coastal ...

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 ...

Trawling of the ocean floor by fishing fleets releases roughly the same amount of carbon emissions into the water as aviation puts into the atmosphere each year, researchers said on Wednesday, calling ...

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 ...

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The Scottish government has embarked on a public consultation that could ban bottom-trawl fishing across 20 offshore marine protected areas. For 15 of these, the government is considering two options ...

Fisheries managers allow whitefish trawlers to inadvertently scoop up halibut, crab and salmon in their nets. The bycatch rate is relatively low. But because the trawlers catch so much of their target ...

THE sky is still black when Tim Maricich eases the Donna Kathleen out of Morro Bay, a fishing town in south-central California. The vessel yaws in the waves, a child’s toy in the expansive Pacific ...

THE mysterious disappearance of the body of herring which used to frequent Loch Fyne has directed renewed attention to the natural history of that fish. This is now the second time that the shoal of ...