Glenn Skinner, a commercial fisherman and the executive director of the North Carolina Fisheries Association, explained ...

Within a package of 37 new fishing industry initiatives, the Danish government has established trawl-free areas in 19% of its ...

Dramatic footage from Sir David Attenborough’s landmark new film captures the destruction caused to the seabed by bottom trawling. Ocean With David Attenborough, released in cinemas to mark the ...

Three decades on, there’s still plenty of love out there for anarchic sitcom, Bottom. The woman behind a podcast dedicated to the show (plus an upcoming book an ...

Last week, MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee renewed calls to ban bottom trawling, dredging and mining for aggregates ...

Commentary authors Margie Brown and Mark Niver write that they see benefits to legislation to ban bottom trawling in Alaska’s state waters.

Key points: 6 tonnes of bycatch, mostly stony coral, was dragged up in a single bottom trawl last year; Around the weight of a male African elephant, the heaviest land mammal on earth. Stony ...

Lighter nets, streamlined trawl doors, and smarter rigging choices are helping trawl captains burn less fuel, spend less time ...

Dragging nets along the ocean floor is like ‘clearcutting an old-growth forest,’ Pacific Wild says. An industry group ...

Lawmakers in the North Carolina House of Representatives have effectively killed a ban on inshore shrimp trawling, a proposal ...

A trawling ban amendment came up for consideration with little notice, then was approved in the Senate on Thursday. Its ...

Potaka also defended changes to bottom trawling in the Hauraki Gulf under questioning ... "I'm not aware of any extensive advice that has been proffered to me on trawl corridors in the Hauraki Gulf ...