The first scientific evidence that trawling in waters deeper than 600 metres is ecologically damaging and provides poor economic return is reigniting debate about the controversial fishing practice.

Deep-sea trawling smoothes out the wrinkles of canyons on the continental slope, making marine mountainsides look more like ploughed fields, changing the habitat of deep-sea creatures. The process ...

A long-awaited report by the United Nations shows the need for an international moratorium on bottom-trawling and other destructive fishing practices that damage deep sea life. A long-awaited report ...

Researchers have built a global picture of deep-sea fish catches from bottom trawling from 1950 to 2015. Deep-sea trawling can be extremely destructive for fish populations, while providing minimal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Bering Sea is seen from space on May 15, 2002, in this satellite image captured by NASA's SeaWiFS Project. Varying shades of ...

Bottom trawling is a practice used by commercial fisheries around the world in which a large, heavy net is dragged along the ocean floor to scoop up everything in its path. Previous research has ...

Bottom trawl fishing on the high seas is the single greatest threat to highly vulnerable deep-sea environments and the biodiversity they shelter, a new report released today by WWF, IUCN, and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 21—A trade association representing the Bering Sea bottom-trawl fleet filed a lawsuit this week in federal court, arguing ...

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Trawling the seabed for fish is an environmental disaster; it wrecks ecosystems, destroys fish stocks and leaves behind a marine desert. Right? Environment campaigners say so. But there is growing ...

Environmental groups welcomed the Bush administration’s promise this week to push for an international ban on bottom trawling in the deep sea and other “destructive” fishing practices. United Nations ...