If midwater trawlers need to keep dragging nets across the seafloor to catch pollock, they should be managed like any other ...

Costa Rican fishermen are calling for an investigation into the Costa Rican Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture (INCOPESCA) for attempting to reintroduce trawling. Small-scale fishermen from ...

Trawling for fish? You might be setting yourself up for a paltry haul next time. Glenn Perrigo, CC BY-NC-ND Trawling – dragging heavy gear over ocean bottoms in search of fish near the sea floor – is ...

The spring trawl harvest for whiting is underway off the Northwest coast in an unusual year when a crucial marker of success won’t just be nets stuffed with fish but crews that stay healthy and free ...

Annual carbon emissions from bottom trawling—a popular fishing method used to capture seafood at the bottom of the ocean—is equivalent to around 40% of annual transportation emissions in the U.S., a ...

Bottom trawling is a practice used by commercial fisheries around the world in which a large, heavy net is dragged along the ocean floor to scoop up everything in its path. Previous research has ...

Bottom-trawl fishing provides about a quarter of global seafood but is controversial. The heavy nets and dredges that are used to catch species like cod, plaice and scampi also disturb the seabed and ...

THE sky is still black when Tim Maricich eases the Donna Kathleen out of Morro Bay, a fishing town in south-central California. The vessel yaws in the waves, a child’s toy in the expansive Pacific ...

New data shows New Zealand’s trawl footprint continues to cover only a tiny fraction of the country’s waters, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says.