If midwater trawlers need to keep dragging nets across the seafloor to catch pollock, they should be managed like any other ...

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 ...

A new law banning trawling and scalloping in an area off the Sussex coast has been approved by the government. It means a zone of 101 sq miles (164 sq km) off Beachy Head which is home to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial view taken with a drone shows local tribal people fishing with boats and big colorful nets in Kaptai Lake in Rangamati.

Destructive bottom trawling fishing, which involves dragging large nets along the seafloor, could be banned across more vulnerable areas of English seas under new Government proposals. Marine and ...

Bottom trawlers extract one-quarter of the world’s fisheries catches by weight and raise significant ecological, economic and social concerns. Given that, you’d think there would be an answer to basic ...

The fillet of flounder sitting on your plate comes with a severe environmental cost. To catch it, a ship running on fossil fuels spewed greenhouse gases as it dragged a trawl net across the seafloor, ...

A little silver fish — the Atlantic sea herring — is causing a ruckus in New England fishery management circles. That's because the population has shrunk dramatically. A number of the Cape's small ...

Old fishing nets can be an environmental problem. But nonprofits are now collecting them for drone protection in Ukraine.

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 ...