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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bottom trawler, fishing boat sailing along the North Sea coast silhouetted against orange sunset in front of Nieuwpoort. Nieuport, Flanders, Belgium. (Photo by: Arterra/Philippe Clément/Universal ...

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 ...

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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 ...