A contentious debate over banning shrimp trawling in North Carolina's inland waters is expected to continue. Supporters of a ban cite environmental damage and bycatch, while opponents warn of ...

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.

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 ...

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’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

Salmon runs across Western Alaska, particularly in the Yukon and Kuskokwim river systems, have collapsed to levels that would have been unthinkable a generation ago. Subsistence harvests have been ...

Environmentalists say they have groundbreaking “proof” of ancient and extensive coral systems on the Lord Howe Rise seafloor ...