If you liked this story, share it with other people. A vessel seized for fishing in an off-limits area in Indonesia may have also been using a type of trawl net that’s been banned for its destructive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial view taken with a drone shows local tribal people fishing with boats and big colorful nets in Kaptai Lake in Rangamati.

Bottom trawling is linked to an excessive amount of unnecessary animal deaths, especially in the form of bycatch, where ...

Access to salmon is highly charged in Alaska as it is tied to jobs, food security and culture. Trawling has been cited as one ...

More than 3,000 fish species have been caught in bottom trawls, with estimates suggesting the true number could be nearly ...

Bottom trawling is catching thousands of fish species worldwide, revealing a much larger impact on ocean biodiversity than ...

A federal fishery agency reported last week that 10 killer whales were caught in the gear of trawl net vessels fishing this year in the Bering Sea and North Pacific waters off the Aleutian Islands.

A new analysis that uses high-resolution data for 24 ocean regions in Africa, Europe, North and South America and Australasia shows that 14 percent of the overall seafloor shallower than 1,000 meters ...

The bill, now dropped, would have seen trawling banned from NC's inland and near-ocean waters. Shrimpers say it would have devastated their industry.