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 ...

Environmental groups urged the United Nations on Monday to ban so-called bottom trawl fishing in international waters, calling the practice the most destructive fishing practice on the high seas. In ...

While the agency had been concerned about poor squid catches over the past few years, squid catches proved to be bountiful ...

There are indications of declining fish stocks due to overfishing practices using environmentally unfriendly fishing gear ...

Callum Roberts receives funding from Convex, the Natural Environment Research Council and the European Research Council. He is on the board of Nekton and Maldives Coral Institute and sits on the ...

Protecting just 3.6% of the ocean would cut risk of carbon disturbance due to bottom trawling by 90%, study finds BARCELONA, March 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Trawling of the ocean floor by ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN initiative in partnership with Rolex. Amanda Vincent is a Rolex Awards Laureate. Every day, thousands of fishing boats around the world drag huge weighted nets ...

BARCELONA, March 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Trawling of the ocean floor by fishing fleets releases roughly the same amount of carbon emissions into the water as aviation puts into the ...