Bottom trawling, a fishing technique in which vessels drag weighted nets along the seafloor, has long been condemned by conservationists for disrupting seabed habitat and capturing species ...

Europe’s plastics industry provides special debris-collecting trawl nets (which cost from $23,000 to $57,000 apiece), and also picks up the tab for recycling and other costs. Maria Damanaki, European ...

This means that 98% of Chile's exclusive economic zone, EEZ, will be protected from bottom trawling. Undersecretary Pablo Berazaluce indicated that the Government of President Bachelet has shown ...