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 ...

While the main focus is on climate change and its increasing impacts, bottom trawling is singled out for the threefold effect ...

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In recent times, a significant wave of support has spread across Europe, urging decisive action to eliminate the harmful practice of trawling<\/strong> within the Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).

The Environmental Defence Society (EDS) hails a Waikato Regional Council decision to prohibit destructive bottom-contact ...

Government ministers say that the UK will not implement an outright ban on bottom trawling, despite pledging to do so earlier ...

In New Zealand, the stay-or-go debate over orange roughy fisheries encapsulates the tensions in the relationship between ...

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 ...

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 ...