Bottom trawling in European waters costs society up to €10.8 billion each year, according to a first-of-its-kind study released today. It found that this cost is largely due to carbon dioxide ...

Annual carbon emissions from bottom trawling—a popular fishing method used to capture seafood at the bottom of the ocean—is equivalent to around 40% of annual transportation emissions in the U.S., a ...

Destructive bottom trawling fishing, which involves dragging large nets along the seafloor, could be banned across more vulnerable areas of English seas under new Government proposals. Marine and ...

Three tribal governments and an environmental organization on Thursday served notice to federal agencies that they are planning a lawsuit to block a fishing experiment along the seafloor in the ...

Environmental NGOs Oceana and ClientEarth are filing a lawsuit with Spain's national high court for permitting bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), a practice they claim violates EU ...

The world’s oceans are massive and critical carbon sinks that absorb roughly one-third of the greenhouse gas emissions humans generate by burning fossil fuels and reshaping Earth’s landscape. New ...

Cornish fishermen would like to meet the new environment secretary to discuss concerns over the future of their industry. A consultation on extending a ban on bottom-trawler fishing to cover more ...

A ‘Matter Arising’ paper published in Nature today refutes the findings of a paper by Sala et al on the amount of CO 2 released from the seabed by bottom trawling. The paper made significant headlines ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Large areas of the Bering Sea off Alaska’s coast are soon be off-limits to bottom trawling, a practice involving fishing vessels that drag huge, weighted nets across the ocean ...

In its new report "Bottom Trawling: New perspectives on an old fishing practice," Fauna & Flora International (FFI) joins a collaboration of world-leading fisheries scientists and ocean experts in ...

Idaho Today brings you a never-before-seen video of the effects of industrial trawling on the ocean floor. World Ocean Day reminds us that the smallest to the most devastating actions will have ...

A new paper refutes previous findings on the amount of CO2 released from the seabed by bottom trawling. The previous paper made significant headlines around the world on release in 2021, as it equated ...