Bottom trawling, a fishing technique in which vessels drag weighted nets along the seafloor, has long been condemned by conservationists for disrupting seabed habitat and capturing species ...

By Edward Carver Aotearoa New Zealand spent years spearheading the introduction of a new set of rules governing bottom ...

The judge agreed with the National Marine Fisheries Service that its review of the annual harvest specifications sufficiently ...

Madurai: Jaffna fishermen leader Nagarasa Varnakulasingam announced that they are boycotting this year's Katchatheevu ...

Environmentalists say it is an insight into the true environmental cost of bottom-trawling for scampi. Large volumes of fish and other marine life are routinely caught in bottom-trawl nets used to ...

Ending the destructive bottom-trawling method of fishing would safeguard the livelihoods of ordinary fishermen in Tamil Nadu ...

Sea life on the seafloor of New Zealand's most productive and important commercial fishing ground shows resilience to ...

The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) and Défense des Milieux Aquatiques (DMA) have launched legal action against France for not banning bottom trawling in Natura 2000 Marine Protected Areas ...

The fishing practice of bottom trawling continues in European marine protected areas (MPAs) despite conservation concerns over its destruction of seabed habitats and indiscriminate catches.

Ending destructive bottom-trawling in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka is crucial for safeguarding marine resources and fishermen's livelihoods.