Shrimpers from coastal towns rallied to oppose the bill, arriving at the Legislative Building in droves over the past week as the ban appeared and then quickly passed the state Senate with ...

Ministers announced the proposed ban after David Attenborough’s film Ocean revealed the extent of the damage to the ocean ...

“On continental shelves such as the southern North Sea, where shifting sands and gravels are stirred up by strong tidal currents, even trawling more than once a year may be beneficial for some ...

House Bill 442, which the Senate approved in a vote last week, would ban shrimp trawling inshore and within a half-mile of the shoreline in North Carolina.

A proposed shrimp trawling ban in sounds and inshore waters draws protesters from Eastern North Carolina for a rally at the General Assembly in Raleigh Tuesday.

Bottom trawling is banned in the northern part of the Bering Sea, but federal scientists have developed a plan to test the effects of the fishing practice there. That plan will not be carried out ...

NOAA Fisheries' summer trawl survey shows Norton Sound red king crab are moving, Arctic cod numbers have dropped significantly and Pacific cod are continuing to increase as the Northern Bering Sea ...

Just 11% of the North Sea and 18% of the Irish Sea was unimpacted, while 10% and 3% were identified as having a fully depleted status of 0. Bottom trawling impact on the seabed.

Advances in bottom-trawling technology have given commercial fishing boats access to the sea floor where unknown species have been making a living for eons ...

A trade association representing the Bering Sea bottom-trawl fleet filed a lawsuit this week in federal court, arguing that new halibut bycatch limits are unfair and unlawful. The North Pacific ...

The nonprofit released a statement Oct. 7 calling on the council to limit trawling in the Bering Sea and Alaska fisheries, saying it is a threat to sensitive seafloor habitats.