As salmon returns bottom out and bycatch caps rise, we must must stop prioritizing pollock profits over Indigenous food ...

A fishing cutter, photographed through the net of another boat, trawls for shrimp at Germany's North Sea coastline near the Jade river on Monday, Aug. 22, 2005. A ban on inshore shrimp trawling is ...

When fishing companies go trawling, an industrial fishing method the involves dragging a fishing net across the seafloor, they wreak havoc on the lives of countless ocean creatures. These ...

Fishing: North Atlantic will include lots of new features, fish species, fishing methods and, of course, ships are set to delight fishery fans around the globe. Climb into the captain’s chair once ...

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 ...

A bill to ban shrimp trawling in North Carolina’s sounds died Wednesday at the hands of the state House of Representatives. Shrimpers from coastal towns rallied to oppose the bill, arriving at the ...

Supporters of the ban say trawling damages fish habitats and depletes fish populations, while shrimpers argue it would devastate their livelihoods. A study on the impacts of trawling and a lawsuit ...

A dive team discovered the wreck of the steam trawler Seiner, which sank in 1929 with 21 crew members. Shipwreck hunter Joe Mazraani, who co-led the expedition, died just two days after identifying ...

Shrimpers in the US state of North Carolina are not sitting back quietly as a bill that would ban commercial shrimp trawling in inshore waters and within a half-mile of the Atlantic Ocean shoreline ...

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 ...

WANCHESE — The tourists come from Pennsylvania and Maryland, from South Dakota and Texas, from just about everywhere, to North Carolina’s Outer Banks for a week of sun, water and relaxation. And when ...