Overfishing has dire consequences for ocean health and for the millions of people who depend on fish for food and well-being. Globally, catch has been steadily declining since the 1990s. It's a trend ...

Lawmakers in Alaska are considering legislation that would reign in one of the most controversial and destructive forms of modern commercial fishing. Known as trawling, this technique involves huge ...

Alaskans are all too familiar with radical groups funded by out-of-state interests seeking to shut down sustainable resource development. A predictable cast of characters — including billionaire ...

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 ...

Most studies on the effects of fishing gear on the seafloor have been focused on trawl and dredge fisheries. A significant portion of the landings of finfish and shellfish from U.S. coastal waters ...

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 ...

Bottom trawling, or the use of heavy nets to scrape the ocean floor for fish, has a detrimental effect on sea life and marine ecosystems. Despite that, the practice still provides over a quarter of ...

Researchers report estimates of bottom trawl-fishing footprints around the world. The extent of bottom trawl fishing and its environmental impact are often debated. However, trawling extent has been ...