Glenn Skinner, a commercial fisherman and the executive director of the North Carolina Fisheries Association, explained ...

A bill to ban shrimp trawling in North Carolina's sounds died Wednesday at the hands of the state House of Representatives.

Typically, boats pull the trawl at a speed of 2 1/2 to 3 knots, Skinner said, which is around 3 mph. . The trawl forms a flattened cone shape, where the bottom line, also called the foot rope, is ...

Typically, boats pull the trawl at a speed of 2 1/2 to 3 knots, Skinner said, which is around 3 mph. . The trawl forms a flattened cone shape, where the bottom line, also called the foot rope, is ...

A quarter of the world’s seafood caught in the ocean is collected through bottom-trawling, a method that harms seafloor ecosystems. The technique involves dragging a net along the ocean’s ...

Bottom trawling is one of the most widespread methods of fishing used today; some 25% of the world’s fish is caught using this method. It is highly profitable because of the substantial harvests and ...

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 ...

Bottom trawling impacts marine animals both directly and indirectly. Carlos Minguell/ OCEANA Bottom trawling not only kills marine animals by scooping them up as bycatch, it also affects species ...

CNN: Besides bottom trawling, what other threats to the ocean’s mesophotic zone have you encountered during your research? Ghislain: There is global warming, plastic pollution.