Supporters of the ban say trawling damages fish habitats and depletes fish populations, while shrimpers argue it would devastate their livelihoods. A study on the impacts of trawling and a lawsuit ...

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 bill to ban shrimp trawling in North Carolina’s sounds died Wednesday at the hands of the state House of Representatives. Shrimpers from coastal towns rallied to oppose the bill, arriving at the ...

Jody Mason of Anchorage is the owner of Alaskan 4 Star Charters out of Whittier and is the founder of the STOP Alaskan ...

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 ...

Trawling is a method of fishing that involves pulling a fishing net through the water behind one or more boats. Trawling can be divided into bottom trawling and midwater trawling, depending on how ...

A long-awaited report by the United Nations shows the need for an international moratorium on bottom-trawling and other destructive fishing practices that damage deep sea life. A long-awaited report ...

The destructive fishing practice destroys underwater ecosystems, kills marine life and kicks up soils needed to store carbon dioxide. When Bryce Stewart dived after the toothed, steel-weighted nets of ...

Commercial fishing vessels which drag the ocean floor produce carbon emissions on a level with global aviation, according to a groundbreaking study, which has calculated for the first time the climate ...

Bottom trawling is a practice used by commercial fisheries around the world in which a large, heavy net is dragged along the ocean floor to scoop up everything in its path. Previous research has ...