A consultation on extending a ban on bottom-trawler fishing to cover more marine protected areas (MPA) is currently ongoing.

Federal fishery managers once again are considering letting shrimpers drag trawling nets along a protected area of seafloor, which opponents say will destroy one of the most environmentally important ...

Shrimp is one of the most popular types of seafood consumed in the United States. Shrimp trawling uses nets towed slowly near the bottom of the water. Turtle excluder and bycatch reduction devices ...

Mafalda de Freitas, the megaplastics program director at the Center for Marine Debris Research at Hawaiʻi Pacific University, ...

Bottom trawling is a fishing practice that is notoriously destructive to seafloor ecosystems. Now there’s growing evidence that it might unleash planet-warming carbon ...

Attenborough film shows seabed ‘devastation’ says MP in bottom trawling ban call - Climate leaders are set to meet in Nice, France, next month.

It took decades to break the balance between ocean life and human demand. Now a new wave of innovation, enforcement and ...

Nami shared this footage of a pollock factory processing mothership in action. The video captures the moment when the codend of a trawl net is popped, unleashing a massive haul of pollock onto the ...

UPDATE (6/20/25): The Onslow County Government stated on Friday that their Chairman, Tim Foster, sent a letter to State Representatives opposing the potential change to HB 442. They expressed their ...

A commercial fisherman caught out trawling an isolated marine reserve at the top of the South Island, and not submitting ...

CARTERET COUNTY, N.C. (WNCT)- A bill that would limit shrimp trawling is now heading to House for a vote. The bill would prohibit all shrimp trawling in in-shore fishing waters and within half a mile ...