The Kerala government has announced a 52-day trawling ban across the state’s coastal waters, effective from midnight on June 9 to midnight on July 31. The annual trawling ban is part of the state's ...

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 ...

Bottom trawling is a polarizing fishing practice that involves dragging heavy nets and equipment across the seafloor. Davide Pischettola / NurPhoto via Getty Images A controversial fishing method may ...

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 ...

Scientists have determined that fishing trawling causes intensive, long-term biological desertification of the sedimentary seabed ecosystems, diminishing their content in organic carbon and ...

LegaSea has blasted bottom trawling as an indiscriminate fish harvesting process that should be banned. Spokesman Scott Macindoe said bottom trawling captured everything in its path, scraping vital ...

Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly on Thursday approved a controversial law authorizing trawl fishing, a method questioned by environmentalists and small-scale fishermen who fear the destruction of ...

RAMANATHAPURAM: With the onset of the hatching season, fishermen are reporting an influx of endangered species getting caught in their nets. Marine biologists called for action against shore trawling ...

Disclaimer: The information provided in this article is the position of Seafood New Zealand, not Stuff, with stats provided by the advertiser. Hoki is an important source of healthy seafood, and one ...

The destructive fishing practice destroys underwater ecosystems, kills marine life and kicks up soils needed to store carbon dioxide. When Bryce Stewart dived after the toothed, steel-weighted nets of ...