Idaho Today brings you a never-before-seen video of the effects of industrial trawling on the ocean floor. World Ocean Day reminds us that the smallest to the most devastating actions will have ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - One House bill has fueled some controversy after passing in the Senate. House Bill 442, intended to open the red fish and flounder fishing seasons again, has now also put ...

A heavy metal net is dragged across the seafloor at breakneck speed, churning up dark clouds of sediment and swallowing everything in its path. A blue-spotted stingray tries to flee, flailing its ...

Coastlines along Sussex County in England have been significantly impacted by bottom trawling and environmental influence. In 2021, the Sussex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (IFCA) ...

An April 2025 research publication – which itself was funded by NOAA through its Climate and Fisheries Adaptation (CAFA) ...

Bally Philp hauls up his baited traps from the waters off Scotland’s Isle of Skye, checking each one methodically. Unlike most of Scotland’s coastline, these waters are protected from industrial ...

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In this detail from a Landsat satellite image from 1999, individual vessels in the Gulf of Mexico can be seen as bright spots at end of sediment trails. Other bright spots are fixed oil and gas ...

The Scottish government has initiated a public consultation that could lead to the ban on bottom-trawl fishing across 20 offshore marine protected areas (MPAs). This move aims to protect Scotland's ...