Federal fishery managers will vote today on whether to allow rock shrimpers to drag trawling nets along a protected Florida seafloor with rare deepwater coral reefs found nowhere else in the world.

As countries commit to bans on bottom trawling, an island community in Cambodia is implementing its own method: dropping large cement blocks in near-shore waters. These not only snag trawling boats’ ...

KENDRAPARA: Around 1,500 carcasses of Olive Ridley turtles have recently washed ashore along the nearly 15 km of coastline from Hukitola to Eakakula beach within the Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary in ...

Off the coast of Brisbane, Australia, a new species was caught in a trawling net. Felipe Palacio via Unsplash When anglers dropped trawling nets into the Pacific Ocean several miles off the east coast ...

I saw just how effective gillnets and trawl nets were while working as a fisheries technician many years ago in Utah. The gillnets were called experimental nets because they had different-sized mesh ...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — A vote this week could reinstate shrimp trawling for the first time in decades in a protected area off the coast of Fort Pierce, despite opposition from scientists and ...