The netting is designed to act as a barrier to orcas while still allowing fish to pass over, under or through the broad gaps ...

Fishermen in Alaska and elsewhere are trying to bring more attention to the impacts that trawlers are having on our marine resources.

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

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 ...

It's called the halibut excluder — a scary name for a nifty device, especially if you're a hapless halibut caught in a cod trawl net off Kodiak Island. The island's fishermen are working with ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A vessel seized for fishing in an off-limits area in Indonesia may have also been using a type of trawl net that’s been banned for its destructive ...

Ukrainian troops need heavy-duty nets to block enemy attack drones. They're getting over 1,000 tons from Denmark for free, thanks to Brexit and a lone gardener. He and other volunteers are trucking ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Hook-and-line fishermen say the government handed over 90 percent of the Pacific groundfish catch to the trawling industry in a "wholesale abandonment" of congressional plans to ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. By Louis Daniel and Jack Travelsted A flotilla of about a dozen shrimp trawlers ...

A new analysis that uses high-resolution data for 24 ocean regions in Africa, Europe, North and South America and Australasia shows that 14 percent of the overall seafloor shallower than 1,000 meters ...