The U.K. government has rejected calls to fully ban bottom trawling in its offshore marine protected areas, despite evidence that the fishing practice tears up seabed habitats and releases large ...

Bottom trawl fishing on the high seas is the single greatest threat to highly vulnerable deep-sea environments and the biodiversity they shelter, a new report released today by WWF, IUCN, and the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In 2023, commercial fishing vessels spent more than 33,000 hours operating in the U.K.’s offshore marine protected areas, mainly using trawling and ...

As commissioner of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, I often hear concerns about the impacts of trawl gear used in Alaska’s pollock fisheries, most recently related to potential unobserved ...

At the depths of the seafloor, life moves and grows eerily slowly. Under crushing pressure and shrouded in darkness, banks of sprawling corals form nurseries for schools of deep-sea fish while the ...

The Scottish government has initiated a public consultation that could lead to the ban on bottom-trawl fishing across 20 offshore marine protected areas (MPAs). This move aims to protect Scotland's ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A recent meeting of the intergovernmental body that manages fisheries in the North Pacific Ocean failed to confer new protections for the Emperor ...

Bottom trawling has long attracted controversy over its environmental impact. As long ago as the 1880s, complaints from line fishers in the UK resulted in an inquiry into claims it reduced fish stocks ...

The Government of Canada says the recovery of wild Pacific salmon stocks is a key priority, but both Indigenous and non-Indigenous harvesters call foul.