By Shreya Dasgupta How many marine fish species do bottom trawls catch? Researchers now have a list, and it’s long, running ...

Annual carbon emissions from bottom trawling—a popular fishing method used to capture seafood at the bottom of the ocean—is equivalent to around 40% of annual transportation emissions in the U.S., a ...

More than 3,000 fish species have been caught in bottom trawls, with estimates suggesting the true number could be nearly ...

Bottom trawling in European waters costs society up to €10.8 billion each year, according to a first-of-its-kind study released today. It found that this cost is largely due to carbon dioxide ...

New research suggests that bottom trawling stirs up large amounts of carbon from the seabed and releases 55-60% of this carbon into the atmosphere within nine years. This amount of carbon is nearly ...

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Bottom trawling is catching thousands of fish species worldwide, revealing a much larger impact on ocean biodiversity than ...

Bottom trawler, fishing boat sailing along the North Sea coast silhouetted against orange sunset in front of Nieuwpoort. Nieuport, Flanders, Belgium. (Photo by: Arterra/Philippe Clément/Universal ...

Bottom trawling, or the use of heavy nets to scrape the ocean floor for fish, has a detrimental effect on sea life and marine ecosystems. Despite that, the practice still provides over a quarter of ...

Bottom trawling is linked to an excessive amount of unnecessary animal deaths, especially in the form of bycatch, where ...

Innovative, yet simple, solution helps protect the seas from the illegal bottom trawling that ravages the seabed in protected areas. The ground of Koh Ach Sehmwas was shaking every night because of ...

Access to salmon is highly charged in Alaska as it is tied to jobs, food security and culture. Trawling has been cited as one ...