In Scotland, the fishing practice of scrapping ocean bottom continues despite promise - Scotland has designated 37% of its ...

Scotland has designated 37% of its waters as marine protected areas, but destructive fishing methods like bottom trawling continue in most of these zones ...

The fishing practice of bottom trawling continues in European marine protected areas (MPAs) despite conservation concerns over its destruction of seabed habitats and indiscriminate catches. Four NGOs ...

Most people would agree: a bottom trawler is a trawler that drags the ocean bottom. Apparently, to those who make the rules, it’s more complicated than that. Trawlers that drag the bottom between 40% ...

MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge in Florida has blocked the imports of a high-priced fish from protected waters near Antarctica, siding with U.S. regulators who argued they were required to block imports ...

Trawlers targeting flatfish in the Bering Sea deployed underwater web fences this summer to try to keep killer whales from getting entangled in their nets pulled along the ocean bottom. During a ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Ocean Conference must ratify key treaties and fund ocean restoration to avert ecological collapse Just 3% of ocean is ...

FILE - Fillets of Chilean sea bass caught near the U.K.-controlled South Georgia island are displayed for sale at a Whole Foods Market in Cleveland, Ohio on June 17 ...