Thousands of ocean species are being caught in bottom trawls, including many that are listed as threatened such as the critically endangered giant guitarfish, the zebra shark and at least three sea ...

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. Four NGOs ...

Trawlers targeting flatfish in the Bering Sea deployed underwater web fences this summer to try to keep killer whales from getting entangled in their nets pulled along the ocean bottom. During a ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Ocean Conference must ratify key treaties and fund ocean restoration to avert ecological collapse Just 3% of ocean is ...

The critically endangered giant guitarfish is among the species being caught by bottom trawling, according to a new global inventory published by University of British Columbia researchers (Sarah ...

Smashed, and now spilled, a soup of dead crabs and conger eels slid across the salt-covered ship floor. Bruised, banged and beaten by boulders, half a ton of mud sprinkled with squashed starfish and ...

Ocean fish populations have fallen dramatically in the past half-century, and climate change is expected to make the problem worse. Governments have designated “marine protected areas”, where where ...