Modified mesh sizes for species selectivity Equipped with turtle exclusion devices Designed to avoid ghost fishing Used in ...

“Our methods and results might be used in optimizing marine spatial planning ... highlighting the importance of sustainable fishing practices and regulated trawling efforts. The study is published in ...

many of these regions remain at risk due to bottom trawling—a highly destructive fishing practice that involves dragging heavy nets across the seafloor. This method not only destroys fragile ...

The trawling method will be utilized and the Japanese government will pay 25 million yen ($161,000) to Russia. The method came into use following the Russian ban on drift-net fishing in 2016 ...

Patagonia’s campaign to raise awareness about the damage caused by bottom trawling resulted in a ‘lightning in a bottle’ ...

An international group of surfers staged an underwater protest in Caithness to highlight a threat to vital ecosystems from ...

The whole Firth of Clyde was once closed to bottom trawling. Forty years on, an inshore limit is desperately needed, says Hugh Raven, chair of ...

Among marine ecosystems, the capacity of mangroves, seagrass meadows and kelp forests to store carbon is well documented, but less is known about the sediments of the ocean floor. Two recent “blue ...

Leaders within the trawl fleet have attempted to innovate ... Scallop dredging is the most destructive legal fishing method in Europe, using heavy metal rakes to scrape scallops off the seafloor.

Australian Antarctic Program scientists have used DNA technology to help identify threatened albatross, petrel and shearwater ...