Despite widespread human impacts on wildlife diversity worldwide, many fish communities on the seafloor have maintained their ...

As well as threatening fish stocks, a recent paper Mayorga co-authored studied the movements of over 20,000 bottom trawling vessels worldwide and found that by dredging the carbon-rich sediment on ...

Other recent scientific research has also connected climate change to trawling in the fishing industry. In a May study in the journal Nature, the authors argued that previous estimates of the CO2 ...

After galvanizing an industry, sparking death threats for state lawmakers and creating a divide between the House and Senate, ...

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 ...

Hundreds of protesters showed up at the legislature Tuesday, demanding that lawmakers stop a proposed shrimp trawling ban in ...

The North Carolina House of Representatives axed a bill that would put a ban to shrimp trawling along the state's coast.

Microbes chow down on it, expelling CO 2 in the process. The dissolved gas then moves around on currents, ... Trawling is adding still more CO 2 to seawater, and with it more acidity.

Almost one quarter of the world’s annual catch is from this bottom trawling – a process that has been described by scientists as “bulldozing” the ocean floor.