"Has the potential to trigger knock-on effects." Officials issue sweeping ban on controversial fishing practice: 'It's a ...

The only California native gamefish that remains overfished is the yelloweye rockfish, but even this is slated for recovery ...

A new poll shows a majority of New Zealanders want the fishing method of bottom trawling banned, but Oceans and Fisheries ...

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’ ...

While 37% of Scotland's waters have been designated as marine protected areas, only a small fraction have management measures in place to enforce that protection, according to environmental groups.

The largest remaining seagrass meadows in the Mediterranean are in Tunisia’s Gulf of Gabès, a hotspot for biodiversity and fishing. But illegal bottom trawling and industrial pollution are destroying ...

Small- and large-scale fishers report an increase in the volume and variety of fish species in the Patos Lagoon and the coast of Rio Grande do Sul state. Such abundance came after a bill banning ...

As the first customers of the day stream into a supermarket in Singapore, the seafood section bustles with activity. A spread of freshly caught fish and shellfish glistens on crushed ice – plump ...

A controversial bill that has been making its way through the North Carolina legislature would ban shrimp trawling in sounds, rivers and within a half mile of the coast. While that bill won't be taken ...

The Kerala Government has imposed a 52-day trawling ban along the state's coastal waters, effective from midnight June 9 to midnight July 31, as reported by ANI. This ban is part of marine ...