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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 may ...
When fishing companies go trawling, an industrial fishing method the involves dragging a fishing net across the seafloor, they wreak havoc on the lives of countless ocean creatures. These ...
The bottom trawling fishing technique is more harmful to the environment than previously thought, according to a new study. While it has long been known that this method captures fish indiscriminately ...
How many marine fish species do bottom trawls catch? Researchers now have a list, and it’s long, running to some 3,000 species, according to a recent study. Bottom trawling is a commercially popular, ...
Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly on Thursday approved a controversial law authorizing trawl fishing, a method questioned by environmentalists and small-scale fishermen who fear the destruction of ...
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 ...
Explore the sustainability concerns and challenges facing India's marine fisheries amidst conflicting government assessments and environmental degradation.
Many fishing methods have negative impacts on marine life and ecosystems. Some of the most destructive include the use of gillnets, longlines, trawls, pot and trap gear, purse seines, and explosives.
New report finds that just two Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) out of 113 in the UK ban bottom-trawl fishing across the whole ...