Yahoo

Trawling for trouble: How fishing along the seafloor significantly worsens climate change

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 ...
KTVB

Trawling's devastating effects featured in 'Ocean With David Attenborough'

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 ...
Newsweek

Why the Carbon Footprint of Your Fish Might Be Bigger Than You Think

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, ...
Mother Jones

This Commercial Fishing Technique Is a Climate Catastrophe

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced ...
Inhabitat

Bottom trawling contributes more carbon emissions than air travel

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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Seabed Trawling May Be Spewing Huge Amounts of CO2 Into the Atmosphere

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 ...
Yahoo

Bottom trawling nets devastate marine habitats, organization warns

Fishing with nets dragged across the seabed is causing serious harm to marine life, according to a report released by the marine conservation organization OceanCare on Wednesday. The practice ...
CBS News

"The biggest environmental story that no one knows about": The recovery of groundfish off the West Coast

Warrenton, Oregon — A rare environmental success story is unfolding in waters off the U.S. West Coast. After years of fear and uncertainty, bottom trawler fishermen — those who use nets to catch ...

Sea Harvest, Westmore Seafoods launch Supreme Court challenge over WA fishing ban

Opposition to WA's new demersal fishing restrictions has intensified, with trawling companies in the state's north launching ...
Reuters

Carbon emissions from trawler fishing on a par with aviation, say ocean researchers

BARCELONA, March 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Trawling of the ocean floor by fishing fleets releases roughly the same amount of carbon emissions into the water as aviation puts into the ...
CNN

The woman saving seahorses from ‘annihilation fishing’

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN initiative in partnership with Rolex. Amanda Vincent is a Rolex Awards Laureate. Every day, thousands of fishing boats around the world drag huge weighted nets ...