Boston MA: Bottom trawling, an industrial fishing method that drags large, heavy nets across the seafloor stirs up huge, billowing plumes of sediment on shallow seafloors that can be seen from space.

Scientists find a deep-sea coral ecosystem over 100 years old, raising urgent concerns about bottom trawling in the South Pacific.

In 2023, commercial fishing vessels spent more than 33,000 hours operating in the U.K.’s offshore marine protected areas, mainly using trawling and dredging methods. Bottom trawling is permitted in ...

Eight in ten British adults think a destructive industrial fishing method should be banned in marine protected areas (MPAs), a poll suggests. The YouGov survey of 2,111 people, conducted on behalf of ...

A British favourite at local chippies and pubs could carry a high environmental cost, scientists have warned.

Emmanuelle Périé-Bardout: Bottom trawling is (a method of) fishing that you could compare to a bulldozer in a forest. If you imagine a forest which is being clear cut by a bulldozer, you can picture ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seabed damage caused by dredging off the coast of Scotland. Howard Wood / Community of Arran Seabed Trust ...

When it comes to news about fishing, bottom trawling sparks some of the most dramatic stories. In September, for instance, Greenpeace activists took it upon themselves to drop 18 boulders weighing up ...